[vox-tech] shell script challenge - Now MD5sum erratia

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:22:55PM -0700, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote:
> the implication is that two inputs producing the same sum "checksum" have a
> higher probability of actually being different than two inputs producing the
> same md5 "checksum".

Yeah, that's what I meant to say.

Found a very interesting page on md5sum. It's:

http://hills.ccsf.org/~jharri01/project.html

"So why does MD5 seem so secure? Because 128 bits allows you to have
2128=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 different
possible MD5 codes"

Lots of good reading for insomniacs.