Posted by Evert | Rooftop on 05/17/05 06:04

Rory Browne wrote:

>Interesting idea. Using three identifiers, as a key.
>md5() returns a 32 hex-digit value. That means that there are can only
>be a maximum of 3.4 * 10^38 possible outcomes for the md5(). This
>means that there there is a 1 in
>340000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance of a collision between
>filenames.
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Thank you Rory, Richard and Jason you really helped me out.

grt,
Evert

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