On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:31:52 +0100 "Russell L. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> G. Wade Johnson wrote: > > I would probably take a multi-step approach. I would look for a [snip] > Thanks, Wade. The term "digest" was unfamiliar to me, but I > recognize the concept from the git documentation, as I am in the > process of switching backup from svn to git. And I was unaware of > (or had forgotten about) search.cspan.org. The same concept is called a "hash" in crytpographic circles. But, that just confuses things when discussing Perl. SHA1 is the same algorithm that git uses. MD5 is somewhat less computationally expensive, but on a modern system it shouldn't matter. The important point is that if two messages have the same digest, they are the same message. Good luck, G. Wade -- Sufficiently encapsulated magic is technology. -- Michael Schwern _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
