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Yes, but I was refuting a false point, that those bytes can be proven to never collide... Obviously, they can collide. In the real world, programmers should be prepared for random collisions, yes, but also for created collisions...

False assumptions are the bane of correct design and will cause an entire system to fail in unpredictable ways or be exploited without detection.



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