Re: Checksum with no creation date
On 02/24/2011 06:45 AM, David wrote:
I want to implement a jar comparation files application using a
checksum. Two jar files should be the same if both have the same
content (although the files have different date of creation).
Comparing bytes files takes too many time and I haven't assurance
comparing only files size. So I must use a checksum algorithm.
I have tried whith CRC32 and MD5 checksums but they use the creation
file date for make the calculation. Dou you know any checksum
Huh? They do not!
algorithm for do it? Or may be there's another way for make the
comparation.
You do realize that checksum calculations examine every byte in the file,
right? So you are misinformed on two counts: these algorithms don't use file
dates, nor even rely on there being a file in the first place; and you don't
avoid examining every byte of input in the calculations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC32
So, what now?
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