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Ask the webkit source code repo how using sha-1 for that purpose went.

It depends what you are doing, but deduplication where a collision means you loose data, seems like an inapropriate place for sha-1.





Why would someone be so idiotic as to not compare actual data before deleting probable extra copies?




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