From: Holger K. <hol...@gm...> - 2006-11-07 16:17:13
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Gunter Ohrner schrieb: =20 > Hu, I'd rather like to avoid that - the old server is rather slow, iss = > attached to a thin pipe and the amount of data is pretty massive... ;) But computers do work at night without supervisor... >=20 >> Appending has no advantage over hashing. Just makes comparison uglier.= >=20 > Well, it'd make the pretty unlikely collision even more unlikely, as in= =20 > this case an md5 hash collision and an equal Message-ID must happen at = > the same time to different messages in the same folder. That's be=20 > something even I would call "practically impossible". That doesn't account for a missing message id, does it? And md5 hash collision on a string like a typical (existing) message id i= s "practically impossible" i believe. Must a have book somewhere that had= probability calculations for md5 (improbability in that case). I feel th= e the urge for a hot cup of tee suddenly. |