On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:33:14AM +0100, 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?
Ah, but of course. Thank you. I simply did an md5 of everything, and diff'ed it against the CHECKSUM.MD5 of everything.... Thanks for the dope-slap -- um, I mean edification. Jim _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
