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xanthian

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short Bittorrent hashcode results in collisions

I've noticed that when I search for some popularly mentioned torrent by the hash-code, I'll get up to a maximum, so far, of five false hits out of maybe 60 total hits.

How much hair-pulling would be involved to double the length of the hash-code and change to the appropriate hashing algorithm for that hash-code length, presumably first in the standard for BitTorrent, then in the source code, to lower the false positives rate?

xanthian.
Kent Paul Dolan.

xanthian

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Re: short Bittorrent hashcode results in collisions

Newbie mistake. Wrong thread and no way to remove a message, just to gut it. Sorry.

xanthian.

Last edited by xanthian (2011-07-18 16:19:06)