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**jamiemac2005** · 06-23-2009, 07:46 AM

Nope, MD5 isn't flawed(yet)... MD4 and other pre-decessors were flawed. But MD5 is just the algorithm used to create the hash...

Apparently 64-bit checksums do calculate differently to 32-bit... The only thing to do is calculate both and distrobute them with the file.

Cheers,
Jamey

06-23-2009, 07:46 AM	#6 (permalink)
jamiemac2005 Design Team Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Coventry, UK Posts: 1,880 OS: Vista, various linux distros	Re: MD5 of a file is different on different computers? Nope, MD5 isn't flawed(yet)... MD4 and other pre-decessors were flawed. But MD5 is just the algorithm used to create the hash... Apparently 64-bit checksums do calculate differently to 32-bit... The only thing to do is calculate both and distrobute them with the file. Cheers, Jamey __________________ Myspace