On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:33, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > On 12/8/05, James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own > > checksum should be > > > > MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11 > > This is interesting; how can the MD5 of a file be contained inside the > file itself? Or rather, how can one correctly place it there? Since > the MD5 algorithm does not converge, I would think this was > impossible. Is it not?
Hopefully. The CHECKSUM.SHA256 file also contains a wrong entry for the CHECKSUM.MD5 but no entry for itself. Other directories have CHECKSUM.MD5 files which don't contain a hash for themselves. I guess an old CHECKSUM.MD5 file got included accidently. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
