On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:50:37PM -0500, Gianni Johansson wrote: > I am beginning to think that using CHKs for SplitFile checksums isn't a good > idea. > > If we use something that is widely deployed like MD5, then SplitFile client > authors can check the checksum themselves using their local system library, > without having to do an FCP request. > > I think insertion/retrieval client authors will be annoyed if we make them > send their entire file *over the wire* just to get a checksum CHK. Think > ISOs..... > > Would there be any objections to using MD5? Is there a cannonical GPL'd java > implementation?
MD5 has a key collision weakness, which is why we've been using SHA-1
pervasively.
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> If we go this route I will add an MD5 FCP command.
How would this help? An FCP command would require that you send the
file over the wire...
Scott
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