binary file compare...

[Adam Olsen]

On Apr 16, 11:15 am, SpreadTooThin <bjobrie... at gmail.com> wrote:
> And yes he is right CRCs hashing all have a probability of saying that
> the files are identical when in fact they are not.

Here's the bottom line.  It is either:

A) Several hundred years of mathematics and cryptography are wrong.
The birthday problem as described is incorrect, so a collision is far
more likely than 42 trillion trillion to 1.  You are simply the first
person to have noticed it.

B) Your software was buggy, or possibly the input was maliciously
produced.  Or, a really tiny chance that your particular files
contained a pattern that provoked bad behaviour from MD5.

Finding a specific limitation of the algorithm is one thing.  Claiming
that the math is fundamentally wrong is quite another.