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Re: Why has RFC 4941 been designed in such a way, that it might cause address conflicts?

Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr> Wed, 16 March 2011 15:14 UTC

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From: Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr>
To: Markus Hanauska <hanauska@equinux.de>
Subject: Re: Why has RFC 4941 been designed in such a way, that it might cause address conflicts?
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 In your previous mail you wrote:

   The chances that a MD5 hash of any data will ever be exactly zero
   (all octets are zero) is ridiculous tiny.

=> yes, I offer a free beer to you if you find one for the next
IETF meeting.

Regards

Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr

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