MD5 checksum for a file ?

[Michael Hudson]

Courageous <jkraska at san.rr.com> writes:

> >Somebody have a sample script to make a md5 from a file or to check if the
> >md5 is equal ??
> 
> Somewhere on the net there is a C version of this that is really
> blazing fast. I used it a while back. Written directly on top of the
> RSA implementation or some such.

Well, the md5 module in Python seems to use the RSA code too...

I doubt it's the fastest way of computing md5's in the galaxy, but
it's probably no slouch.

Cheers,
M.

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