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The lesson is simple, though: Don't trust an MD5 of any computer program. Oh, and PDF and Postscript files are programs, too.
by aston 19y ago
The lesson is simple, though: Don't trust an MD5 of any computer program. Oh, and PDF and Postscript files are programs, too.
- hhm 19y agoI think the lesson is simpler: you can't trust MD5 on data. And programs are stored as data, so you can't trust them either. But the point is that you can't trust anything that you normally wouldn't consider to be programs either, like images and text files.