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Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency
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Nathan Myers |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency |
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:27:12 -0700 |
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:22:14PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> Consider a useful and popular household device, say a dish washer.
> This particular version washes dishes very efficiently and well, but
> has a 2^50 chance on any given dish in a wash cycle of going nuclear
> and taking out your city block.
How about this:
Your car gets you around town quickly enough and at tolerable cost.
However, with probability 2^-21, on any given day, you will die in
a car accident. With a Volvo and careful driving, you might
conceivably get that down to 2^-31. With probability perhaps
2^-39, your whole family will die with you.
If this seems gruesome, a nuclear-exploding dishwasher is more so.
So, if you're a billion billion billion times more worried about a
hash collision than about your whole family dying in a car collision,
then maybe monotone isn't for you.
Nathan Myers
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- [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, claw, 2005/04/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, J C Lawrence, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, J C Lawrence, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency,
Nathan Myers <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, tekHedd, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathan Myers, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/14
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Frank Ch. Eigler, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Frank Ch. Eigler, 2005/04/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/16
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, tekHedd, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/14