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- From: ericb@hplsla.hp.com (Eric Backus)
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 21:11:28 GMT
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: cksum? No, brik!
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- Chip Salzenberg writes:
- >According to qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia):
- >>I have uploaded "cksum" written by me to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming
- >>and tsx-11.mit.edu.
- >
- >Why not just use the "brik" utility? Its C source code is reposted
- >regularly in comp.binaries.ibm.pc, and we (TCT) use it for our UNIX
- >distributions, to be sure that they are extracted properly. And it
- >does CRCs, which are harder to fool than checksums.
-
- Heck, why not use MD5? It's free, source code is available, and
- it's a lot harder to fool than a CRC or a checksum.
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- Eric Backus
- ericb@hplsla.hp.com
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