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Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Mon Aug 30 17:37:51 2004

At 05:10 PM 30/08/2004, Scott Call wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:

I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data being reconstructed from the checksum! That would be truly amazing since I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just 61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!
Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the ISO by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and check them and find the one that matches the ISO.
Reminds me of Wyle E. Coyote. Instead of getting a damn shotgun and just shooting the road runner, he gets the ACME MD5 hash-collision-o-tron to concoct some possible but improbable scheme involving RR'....

---Mike




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