You may have heard that the US government has a bit of a mess on its hands after House Speaker Mike Johnson worked out a somewhat carefully crafted compromise continuing resolution funding plan to …
    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      because of the “perceptual” part.

      A normal hash has the property that it produces wildly different hashes for even the tiniest of changes in the file.

      Perceptual hashing flips that requirement on its head, and therefore makes finding a suitable hash function much harder.