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Dylan16807
on Nov 8, 2012
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The birthday paradox in action: calculating the pr...
Not really. If we're talking about abstract probability over hash functions it's the same no matter how many fixed points SHA1 happens to have. If we talk about concrete numbers then it's actually 1 or 0 for each hash.
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