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Depends whether the two 32-bit hashes are correlated with each other. If there is no correlation then a pair of 32-bit hashes is no more likely to collide than a single 64-bit hash. But this is difficult to achieve, and you should not assume (for example) running the same algorithm twice with different initial states will produce uncorrelated hashes.


Very true.




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