Re: File Integrity Check

[Chip Christian]

>> While md5 checksumming is indeed a bit more secure than the standard
>> *nix sum, there are plenty of cracker kits out there that contain tools
>> to modify files in such a way that the md5sum remains the same.

> Could you please point at a source for such a kit? Or could you please
> produce an example file whose MD5 sum matches

>       50489244b4036b4d476fd165f6de9373 

What Bennett said.  Are you sure you don't mean that crackers are known to 
replace either the tripwire binary or the database?


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