Thats SHA0. Still a checksum is a checksum, cracked or not. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net> To: "james edwards" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com> Cc: "Byron L. Hicks" <bhicks@nmsu.edu>; "Jeff Wheeler" <jwheeler@usip.org>; "Henry Linneweh" <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:12 PM Subject: Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, james edwards wrote:
Not true. For those of us who host Akamai servers, we could download SP2 with no problems. We did not need P2P, or MSDN. In fact, I would be very reluctant to trust a Windows update downloaded via P2P. Have you heard of MD5 sum ?
yep md5 made the news recently because it's been cracked:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5314533.html http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_08.html#001055
-Dan