Re: Val Henson's critique of hash-based content storage systems

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Tom Lord wrote:

My point is simply that blob-db implementations should assume that the
mathemeticians will succeed and take the small steps necessary to make
sure that those bitstrings can't be used to crash a distributed
blob-db infrastructure.

And my point is that you haven't *begun* to describe how one might use an 
arbitrary hash collision to "crash a distributed blob-db infrastructure".

Remember, first you've got to get some reference to your collision into 
the db...  (and if you can do that, why are you mucking around with hash 
collisions?)
   --scott

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