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I am not a cryptographer so maybe one of them can chime in and verify this:

If you use a strong crypto hashing algorithm that would be impossible given current computational resources and their growth for eons into the future. For example, there are no known collisions of SHA-2. No one has found 2 items that have the same SHA-2 hash.

Quantum computers / some break-through algorithm could change that. If that happens all encryption on the internet likely breaks then as well, except where quantum cryptography is being used.

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