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by yc1010 4122 days ago
Of course you are correct (not sure why my comment was downvoted) but in the context of having a unique enough hash TAKEN QUICKLY 99.999% of time in set of millions of files its good enough, if one needs better hashing they can hash the whole file but this is quite heavy on large files and pointless if there is no need for it by the application