From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@cscott.net>
To: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, robj@unrealities.com
Subject: Re: Val Henson's critique of hash-based content storage systems
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:41:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504291639590.32145@cag.csail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504292037.NAA28344@emf.net>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-29 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-29 0:06 Val Henson's critique of hash-based content storage systems Rob Jellinghaus
2005-04-29 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-29 19:52 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-29 20:17 ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-04-29 20:37 ` Tom Lord
2005-04-29 20:41 ` C. Scott Ananian [this message]
2005-04-29 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-29 20:47 ` Morten Welinder
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