Re: Context is King
Everyone has always known that hashes aren't unique. Otherwise they'd be called compressed files instead of hashes (or digests).
The point of a cryptographic hash is twofold:
1) It should be extremely unlikely that a randomly corrupted copy of the item would result in the same hash as the perfect copy.
2) It should be infeasible for somebody to intentionally make two different and usable items that have the same hash.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
