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...s: > > > To put it in simple language, the probability of an file transmission > > error being undetected by MD4 message digest is believed to be > > approximately one in one thousand million million million million > > million million. > > I think that's one duodecillion :-) > > As a cryptographic message-digest hash, MD4 (and MD5) is intended as > having 2^128 operations necessary to crack a specific digest (find the > original source), but probably only on the order of 2^64 operations to > find two messages that have the same digest. But even th...

Is anyone else concerned about the fact that rsync doesn't guarantee to produce identical file copies on the the target machine? Don't get me wrong in sounding critical because I think that rsync is a great example of how software should be written. (I often make the observation, as I learn more about Linux, and inevitably find myself comparing open source applications to Microsoft