Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

[owenc at hubris.net (Chris Owen)]

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On May 18, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> Bah, you should include the solution, it's so trivial.
> 
> Generate all possible files and then do an index lookup on the MD5.
> It's a little CPU heavy, but darn simple to code.

Isn't this essentially what Dropbox has been doing in many cases?

Chris

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