| Walt Mankowski via plug on 24 Sep 2022 13:30:17 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] free courses, systemd Win, hashquines |
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 02:30:46PM -0400, brent saner via plug wrote: > MD5 is well and truly broken. It shouldn't be trusted for anything except > transmission integrity checking, and even then there are significantly > better alternatives. I don't trust MD5 for external files, but I still run md5sum on directories to check for duplicate files, mainly because it's a lot faster than sha1sum. Are there alternatives you recommend? ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug