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Someonetoday at 11:03 AM1 replyview on HN

For those wondering like me: Blake3 generates hashes of at least 224 bits, not, as a literal reading of that comment indicates, 40 bits (which would be bad for file deduplication, giving you a 50% hash collision after around a million files)


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TacticalCodertoday at 1:22 PM

Yup sorry if I mislead people. I usually use 10 hexdigits (40 bits) but no matter how many there are, it's the x bits of the beginning of the checksum that are verified against the hash (in the examples I gave 40 bits).

I wasn't very clear.

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