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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 59 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I've done the math for how long it'd take to randomly guess the last several kilobytes until something checksummed correctly.

I was not pleased with the answer.

[–] urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

wait until you hear about collisions (missing more bits than your hash output length guarantees a collision on average)

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