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Efficient storage: how we went down from 50 PB to 32 PB (medium.com/andrewsumin)
12 points by r4um on Jan 3, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Possible security problems:

- It may be possible to use timing to determine if a file already exists. So it could be possible for an attacker to determine for someone if some other mail.ru user received a file with some given contents.

- They rely on no-one being able to construct a collision of (SHA1, CRC32, size) I believe SHA1 collisions are at least possible. If it was possible to construct such a collision you could change someone else's files by sending an email earlier with the collision.




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