12-06-2018, 11:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2018, 12:02 PM by JackOfHearts.)
Quote:I forgot to mention this earlier, but I was looking into what MD5Sum uses for checksumming, and discovered that:
A) It does not take into account the name or metadata of the file (like tags on an audio file), and
B) it is difficult, but not impossible, to fake an MD5 Sum hash signature
So, from now on, we will be calculating an MD5 Sum Hash value and an SHA512 Sum hash value. The latter is a bit for bit check, and if ANYTHING changes, it will change, and it is cryptographically secure, meaning that there is no known way to fake it. So you will have proof positive that the files are exactly as I made them, and NOTHING has been changed, if that is what you seek.
So at first you didn't really care about checking files integrity for audio as you didn't provide any checksum and your reasoning made sense at the time.
But now MD5 isn't sufficient, there is a need for SHA512??
Seriously??
You are sounding like someone trying trick people that because it is cryptographically secure then it is perfect. I'm not sure you are doing it but it seems to be that from reading that text. I hope it's not.
I don't know why someone like you who could put anything in your subs without anyone knowing would fake an MD5 checksum, please enlighten me
