Short Story: Hash value
A
hash value
is
like a fingerprint
- just
for
a file
,
not
a
finger
.
This means that the
hash value
is a
unique string, which
is calculated from the
file
content
.
As a result,
a change
to a file
has
a change in the
hash
result as well
.
I
f just
the font color
will be
changed
in a text document,
the
hash value
is completely different
-
even though the content
has remained the same
.
But
that is precisely
the point of a
hash value
:
to
identify
an element
100
%
.
Applying this to image
elements
, we can assume,
there are
almost
infinite
possibilities
to produce a different
hash
value
for
one single image
element
.
Example: