Bug #500
Nick-color collisions
| Status: | New | Start: | 09/16/2010 | |
| Priority: | Low | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: |  Mirco Bauer |
% Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | Engine | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Complexity: | Medium |
Found in Version: | ||
| Votes: | 1 (View) |
Description
Even though switching to CRC32 based nick-color combinations there are still notable collisions.
Using MD5 instead of CRC32 could help as it provides more entropy.
Examples:
Eltu collides with famille
jhr collides with jonp
History
Updated by Mirco Bauer 5172 days ago
More examples:
hello collides with Salz and ajmitch
Example nicks with the same fg color but different bg:
meebey JanJacobs phrozen77
Updated by Mirco Bauer 4015 days ago
- Priority changed from Normal to Low
- Target version deleted (
0.10)