begin  quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:35:07AM -0800:
[snip]
> As a side thought, consider the difficulty of including the checksum
> value itself in the data to be checksummed.  You can't change one
> without the other.

Depending on the algorithm, it isn't _that_ hard.

MD5 or SHA hashes, yes, that would be a problem.

-Stewart "Easier yet if you give yourself a scratch space" Stremler


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