On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > For anything particularly important you can use md5 and get a checksum for > comparison.
md5 has been proven to insecure and has collisions. Use SHA instead when comparing "fingerprints" as md5 "fingerprints are not unique. Realize though that either with just checksum the data, not any metadata, and so are incomplete for clone comparisons. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop [email protected] GoogleVoice: 1-646-402-5293 aim: iWiring twitter: @colonelmode _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
