> yes, I can enlighten you all a littel bit about MD5 hashs. The basic is that
Ok, thanks for that. I get the gist, I get the premis. Now, more practically... What are the inputs to the algorythm? Meaning, we have the file, we have the MD5 resultant hash (assuming the file on the server has not been modified), and we have the algorythm, but do we need anything else (e.g. keys) in order to re-compute/check the resultant hash? Hmm, what makes folk think that the file could be changed without the MD5 hash file being changed also. I feel there has to be some private key from the originator, to ensure that nobody could fake both. So, if there are such keys, how do we acquire them? How do we trust them? regards Adam
