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Subject: Re: MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5
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On 12/8/05, James Long <list@museum.rain.com> wrote:
> Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own
> checksum should be
>
> MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) =3D 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11

This is interesting; how can the MD5 of a file be contained inside the
file itself? Or rather, how can one correctly place it there? Since
the MD5 algorithm does not converge, I would think this was
impossible. Is it not?