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Using the first 8 charactors of md5 there is probably a reasonable chance of two URLs having the same hash

Tom Haigh
– Tom Haigh

2009-06-06 17:23:55 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2009 at 17:23
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Yes such collision might occur, but chance is very little for random string it is about one to 4 billions, how ever if you want to have 100% unique hash which you can use as reference to database record use included class.

Nazariy
– Nazariy

2009-06-06 19:29:06 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2009 at 19:29
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want to mention that const codeset may be in any arbitrary order, just to obfuscate++

Saic Siquot
– Saic Siquot

2013-07-19 16:45:07 +00:00
Commented Jul 19, 2013 at 16:45

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