md5 check

Dan Sommers dan at tombstonezero.net
Wed Apr 18 23:14:08 EDT 2012


On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:31:05 +0800
contro opinion <contropinion at gmail.com> wrote:

> i have download  file (gpg4win-2.1.0.exe  from
> http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html)
> when i run :
> 
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
> >>> import md5
> >>> f=open('c:\gpg4win-2.1.0.exe','r')
> >>> print md5.new(f.read()).hexdigest()
> 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e'
> 
> it is not  =  f619313cb42241d6837d20d24a814b81a1fe7f6d
> gpg4win-2.1.0.exe please see   :gpg4win-2.1.0.exe  from
> http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html
> 
> why ?

Because f619313cb42241d6837d20d24a814b81a1fe7f6d is too long to be an
md5 digest?  According to that web page, it is an sha-1 digest.

HTH,
Dan



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