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innocenat on June 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep

As a note, even CRC32 is enough to check most random collisions.

aylons on June 11, 2015 [–]

I actually thought of using CRC32 when developing my first system, but I preferred MD5 because it would be easier and clearer for people to check file integrity in a *NIX command line.

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