Howdy, You'd like to think that, but it ain't necessarily so. It is a pretty common failure for a download to be incomplete. I think it is pretty sloppy for anyone to offer downloads without md5 sums to verify good download. Of course, a zip file doesn't really need it, because it will self verify. Tar files and .exe files on Windows definitely need a md5 sum or something similar.
CRC32 is good enough for this purpose, but everyone has(or can easily get) md5sum, so why not just use it? Good day, Ralph On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 20:54 +0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2005 17:41, Paweł 'Róża' Różański wrote: > > > > But first, they're [MD5 checksums] put there to check if the file was > > downloaded > > correctly, not to check, if it's unchanged. > > Eh? A complete but incorrectly copied file is very improbable, unless the > software is broken - TCP provides plenty of safeguards against data > corruption in transit. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
