[cap-talk] use of hashcodes?

[Raoul Duke]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Tyler Close <tyler.close at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ETag values in Waterken are a SHA-256 HMAC of all state and code
> used during a query. You'd have a pretty good paper if you could
> generate a collision.

just because something is a low probability...

that's what i am curious about -- i get the impression (confirmed
above :-) that most folks aren't kept up at night by the chance of
collisions. nobody seems to talk about the implications of there ever
being a collision.

thanks.