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From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com>
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Subject: Re: MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5
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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