Top "Birthday-paradox" questions

The Birthday Paradox is a phenomenon in probability in which the probability of a population containing two individuals with the same property is much greater than would be intuitively expected.

Random is barely random at all?

I did this to test the randomness of randint: >>> from random import randint >>> >&…

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Examples of Hash-Collisions?

For demonstration-purposes, what are a couple examples of strings that collide when hashed? MD5 is a relatively standard hashing-option, so …

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Probability of hash collision

I am looking for some precise math on the likelihood of collisions for MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 based on the …

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