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Date:      Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:33:14 +0100
From:      Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
To:        James Long <list@museum.rain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5
Message-ID:  <bbe90d1d0512080233m3a4e2468r82519a38d4c92b98@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051208051410.GA21908@ns.museum.rain.com>
References:  <20051208051410.GA21908@ns.museum.rain.com>

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On 12/8/05, James Long <list@museum.rain.com> wrote:
> Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own
> checksum should be
>
> MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) =3D 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11

This is interesting; how can the MD5 of a file be contained inside the
file itself? Or rather, how can one correctly place it there? Since
the MD5 algorithm does not converge, I would think this was
impossible. Is it not?



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