#hash algorithms

Hash Algorithms

We’ll call the hash of a message m, h(m). You could see that while this would certainly not be very difficult to calculate, it’s not apparent just how you might discover a message that would certainly generate a certain hash, or exactly how one may locate 2 messages and the very same hash. It transforms out this is not an especially friendly message absorb feature– we’ll offer…

Deduplication – Craig Ball Takes Us Deeper Into The Belly of The E-Discovery Beast.

Deduplication: Why Computers See Differences in Files that Look Alike to You, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court

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An employee of an e-discovery service provider asked me to help him explain to his boss why deduplication works well for native files but frequently fails when applied to TIFF images.  The question intrigued me because it requires we dip our toes into the…