On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 at 06:41:43PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > MD5 is still believed to be secure. i.e. Nobody can modify a binary so > that it has different contents but the same MD5 hash, unless they are _very_ > _very_ lucky. The task becomes even more difficult if you check the length > of the file as well as the hash. if (filename == MYHACKEDFILE) { cout << "WHATEVERIEXPECTTHEMD5SUMTOBE" } AFA file legnth go...the kernel source is available and I am sure you could re-write that also... -- Phil
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