Collisions Handling

Theoretical it is possible that different documents have the same MD5 hash value. If you assume that a hash value is unique, this could lead to data loss.

Therefore, Fabasoft Folio compares the content if the hash value is equally. If Fabasoft Folio determines that two different documents have the same hash value, the system adds a new random number to the existing hash value and saves the modified hash value to the content.

Example for a collision: