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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Checksum software
- Keywords: checksum software
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.130523.5725@cubetech.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 13:05:23 GMT
- References: <lfj225INN675@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
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- In article <lfj225INN675@ai.cs.utexas.edu> yu@cs.utexas.edu (Yeong-Ho Yu) writes:
- >Several months ago, there was a mention on a public domain software which
- >calculates some type of checksum of a file. I believe it was included
- >in the distribution of another software which required a root privilege to
- >install.
- >
- >If somebody remembers it, please let me know its name and where
- >I can get it.
-
-
- there's always the unix 'sum' command. If you really, really have to
- know if the data has been changed, I have a object that I wrote that
- calculates the MD5 of an NXStream. MD5 is "Message-Digest 5." It's a
- 128-bit message-digest algorithm from the good folks (ha) at RSA Data
- Security. It's public domain, but I think if you use in your software
- you have to put something like "MD5 From RSA Data Security" on the
- info-panel...
-
- If anyone is interested, I'll clean up the code a bit and either mail
- it to you or put it on sonata (if enough people want it...).
-
-
- andrew
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