Simple collision question

From	"puggid" <puggid@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Simple collision question
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Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.security
Date	2011-04-27 16:08 +0000
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I was wondering if someone tell me how I go about calculating
collision rates for a "key" that is 2 characters (lowercase alpha
only) long?

I realise it's 26x26 but if I generate two random numbers between 1-26
is that all that's involved? So each time I generate this key, I have
a 1/676 chance of a collision?

Thanks for the help

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