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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Checksum software
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:19:50 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <1du786INN9ht@ni.umd.edu>
- References: <lfj225INN675@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Nov6.130523.5725@cubetech.com>
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- Keywords: checksum software
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- In article <1992Nov6.130523.5725@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- >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.
- >>
-
- My SLIP software is distributed along with a standalone-command, md5,
- to compute MD5 message digests of file. The software is also
- distributed with a list of the valid MD5 digests; the intent is that
- you can use this to verify that the file arrived intact during
- transmission and other transport.
-
- >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...
-
- The UNIX 'sum' command is pretty much worthless if you are trying to
- detect intentional modification of a file. The whole point of message
- digest algorithms like MD2 and MD5 is that it is computationally
- infeasible to produce plaintext that will result in a given digest.
- Both MD2 and MD5 compute a 16 BYTE digest of the given plaintext
- input.
-
- The MD5 program supplied in the SLIP_920904 software is just the code
- provided in the MD5 specificaion as a reference implementation, if you
- are looking for the source code.
-
- louie
-
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