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For hash functions, maybe not anymore, given the birthday paradox/pigeon-hole principle and other math problems in bucketing inputs versus the attack patterns for breaking hash functions and causing intentional collisions. For mostly purely random entropy in uses like UUID (and IPv6) the classic answer is that it is still more overall space than "atoms in the visible universe".


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