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In article <lfj225INN675@ai.cs.utexas.edu> yu@cs.utexas.edu (Yeong-Ho Yu) writes:
>Several months ago, there was a mention on a public domain software which
>calculates some type of checksum of a file.  I believe it was included
>in the distribution of another software which required a root privilege to
>install.
>
>If somebody remembers it, please let me know its name  and where
>I can get it.


there's always the unix 'sum' command.  If you really, really have to
know if the data has been changed, I have a object that I wrote that
calculates the MD5 of an NXStream.  MD5 is "Message-Digest 5."  It's a
128-bit message-digest algorithm from the good folks (ha) at RSA Data
Security.  It's public domain, but I think if you use in your software
you have to put something like "MD5 From RSA Data Security" on the
info-panel...

If anyone is interested, I'll clean up the code a bit and either mail
it to you or put it on sonata (if enough people want it...).


andrew
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