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- @@@STARTPACK(md5;calculate a message-digest checksum for a file)
- <P>
- md5 takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces
- as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest"
- of the input. It is conjectured that it is computationally
- infeasible to produce two messages having the same message
- digest, or to produce any message having a given prespecified
- target message digest. The MD5 algorithm is intended
- for digital signature applications, where a large file must
- be "compressed" in a secure manner before being encrypted
- with a private (secret) key under a public-key cryptosystem
- such as RSA.
- <P>
-
- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/fileutil/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://ftp.cert.org:/pub/tools/)
-
- @@@ENDPACK
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