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9 Post author: Quirinus_Quirrell 28 January 2011 04:10AM

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Comment author: saturn 28 January 2011 06:19:58PM 4 points [-]

It's extremely unlikely that a useful collision exists. The number of short paragraphs in English which make sense and describe a prediction is much, much smaller than the number of SHA1 values. However, if Quirrel's prediction turns out to be very wordy, or comes in a form other than plain text, your suspicion will be confirmed.