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- Subject: Re: [ANN] MD5 1.0.2 Released (OT)
- From: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:19:17 +0200
Richter wrote:
MD5 is not as bad as this may sound.
One (frequent?) use of MD5 is to compute a hash value for files and use
it for fast comparison (duplicates, is this file changed?, and so on).
I suppose that for this use, it is still OK, at worse involving a binary
comparison to be sure (for some uses).
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Philippe Lhoste
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