Efficient checksum calculating on lagre files

Michael Hoffman cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid
Tue Feb 8 11:28:42 EST 2005


Michael Hoffman wrote:

> Is there a reason you can't use the sha module?

BTW, I'm using SHA-1 instead of MD5 because of the reported vulnerabilities
in MD5, which may not be important for your application, but I consider it
best to just avoid MD5 entirely in the future.
-- 
Michael Hoffman



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