what are the actual odds of an md5 collision occurring in two sequences of data of identical length? I'm wondering how to detect duplicate bitmaps in this comic chat toolkit without needing to actually compare every last byte every time (and keep that data buffered)
I assume it's "pretty rare" but I am acknowledging here that you absolutely could mess this library up on purpose if you want to, but like. don't do that then I guess? you'd just mess up your own files.
... but I am wondering if anyone could really ever conceivably trip a collision by accident ...