Re: What is Checksum, CRC and MD5 hash???

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From: Joerg Keller
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 00:00

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Hi,

MD5 is a one-way cryptographic hash function developed by Ron Rivest
(MD=message digest). It is used in the PEM (privacy enhanced mail)
protocols for authentication. It works with input of arbitrary length
and produces a 128 bit result.

A description can be found in

Bruce Schneier
Applied Cryptography
John Wiley & Sons 1994
(I think there is also a second edition.)

Cheers,
Joerg Keller

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From: jkeller@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de (Joerg Keller)
Subject: Re: What is Checksum, CRC and MD5 hash???
Date: 1995/12/14
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