Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Noel L Yap]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/17/2000 09:02:16 PM
>Compression methods are reversible:  You have to be able
>to get out what you put in.  Digests such as MD5 have no such
>requirement, so please don't compare the two.

I think Larry's point is that, since there is no one-to-one mapping between
information and digests, it is (theoretically) possible to get two different
files to spit out the same MD5.

Noel