Is it possible to get identical SHA1 hash?

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Published on 2010-03-19T17:33:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 17:41 UTC
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Given two different strings S1 and S2 (S1 != S2) is it possible that:

SHA1(S1) == SHA1(S2)

is True?

  1. If yes - with what probability? Is there a upper bound on the length of a string, for which probably of getting duplicates is 0?
  2. If not - why not?

Thanks

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