Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Rex_Jolliff]

Lenny Foner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/18/2000 08:36:12 AM

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Subject:  Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?





>Of course, it's entirely likely that there are wider-than-32-bit CRC's
>which are much faster to compute than either MD5 or SHA-1.  Such CRC's
>presumably only require -reading- the entire file, but not storing
>-all- of it in memory at any given time.

MD5 is only required to see each contiguous 512 bytes of a file at a time
concurrently.

Rex.