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Re^2: session keys: how far to take it

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Dec 28, 2004 at 23:46 UTC ( [id://417889]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: session keys: how far to take it
in thread session keys: how far to take it

If I understand the math at all (and it is quite possible I don't!), the odds against the above producing a duplicated ID at any one choice are something like: 0.000000000000000000054

Which, when compared with your odds of being hit by falling space debris: 0.0000000000000166

Or getting struck by lightning: 0.000001763

Or that you would be one of those caught up in the recent tsunami: 0.000008333

Seem pretty good odds to me.


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