Re: CRC32 and uniqueness

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From: Trejkaz Xaoza
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:00

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Dave Brown wrote:
> If I use CR32 to calculate a CRC for a given file does anyone know the
> chances of a duplicate for different files?

In theory?   1 in 2 to the power of 32.

That's about 2.3283064365386962890625e-10 .. pretty unlikely, especially
if the two files are the same size.

TX

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