| ▲ | dbdr 2 days ago | |
Sure, but if you constrain to fixed output length, you will definitely have collisions (Pigeon Hole Principle). There's no way around that. | ||
| ▲ | hsbauauvhabzb 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
padding with zeroes to a fixed length and prepending the original length would suffice, but you’d have to have a fixed length of double infinity to account for both the length information and the hash information, and the hash is less efficient than the original information. | ||