New criterion for Checksum

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 16:14:07 UTC 2012


On 01/02/12 16:11, Andre Robatino wrote:

>
> A built-in checksum is only useful for checking for natural corruption, not a
> deliberate fake (since in that case it's easy to change the checksum to the
> correct one for the fake). Even md5 is more than enough for this purpose.
>

So it's not error proof,
it can fail and still have a perfect disk, correct.


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