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by gojomo 5545 days ago
...and if you took the same number of bits you were using to store the filesize, and instead stored that many bits of some independent secure hash, it'd be harder still.

Of course every extra bit that has to be matched makes collisions 'harder' but length bits are much weaker than other options, except insofar as they may already be available for other reasons.