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MD5SUM: False Negative


From: Gary Bartlett
Subject: MD5SUM: False Negative
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:14:52 -0700

It appears that MD5SUM incorrectly lists some checks as FAILED when it
should PASS, e.g. using the 32-bit TortoiseSVN distribution at
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads:

 

C:\>md5sum TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.msi

916c103c14664b784a54692cf5e00ca2
*TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.msi

 

C:\>type TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.md5

916C103C14664B784A54692CF5E00CA2
TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.msi

 

C:\>md5sum -c TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.md5

TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.msi: FAILED

md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match

 

It appears the only difference is that of case.

 

This is running under Windows XP SP2:

 

C:\>md5sum --version

md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.97

Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of

the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 

Written by Ulrich Drepper and Scott Miller.

 

Gary

 



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