[TYPO3-english] Duplicate cHash values

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Dmitry Martynenko wrote:
> May be better solution is to decrease key length - for example use 16
> byte (binary) MD5 value, instead of 32 chars value. In any case they are equal.
> Binary comparison is always faster then text comparison. Because text
> comparison also takes in account character sets and case sensitivity.

md5 provides uniqueness only if it is full 32-bit value. Using 16 bit will decrease probablity of conflict but will not eliminate it.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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