seems to me you only need to scan, as aopposed to rigorously compare, md5sums. change one bit in the file and the md5sum will change beyond recognition, ie even the first couple of chracters won't be the same.
IMHO It would take a _very_ clever scam to produce an md5sum that looked similar enough to fool a casual glance. On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:33:05+1030 Mike Beattie<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:37:35PM +1300, Col wrote: > > I just checked fixes 7 for ipcop and got the following results. > > > > e26b3f06b32efee3d04ca8c4b4b6d0e4f - from website > > 26b3f06b32efee3d04ca8c4b4b6d0e4f - downloaded file > > > > Would I be correct in assuming they have posted the wrong md5 > > on their website? ie: 1 digit too long. > > Likely, yes. md5sum's are only 32 chars, not 33. > > Mike. > -- > Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP > Node 6184 > > Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in > the galaxy can make that claim. -- Capt. James > T. Kirk > >
