Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:21:34 -0800 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5 Message-ID: <20051208182134.GA24545@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <bbe90d1d0512080233m3a4e2468r82519a38d4c92b98@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051208051410.GA21908@ns.museum.rain.com> <bbe90d1d0512080233m3a4e2468r82519a38d4c92b98@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:33:14AM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > 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) = 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? Ah, but of course. Thank you. I simply did an md5 of everything, and diff'ed it against the CHECKSUM.MD5 of everything.... Thanks for the dope-slap -- um, I mean edification. Jim
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