Re: TI-H: Re: checksums and stuff


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Re: TI-H: Re: checksums and stuff




hey.  just what are you trying to say? *grin*

no, that was more for cavan.

does anybody know what particular checksumming routing is used (i.e., MD5,
etc.?)

--nick


Nick Foster / Bistromath / zaphod@coe.neu.edu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Olle Hedman" <oh@hem.passagen.se>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: checksums and stuff


>
>
> Nick wrote:
> >
> > right- but the point of a checksum is that any change in the ROM alters
the
> > checksum-- if the ROM is altered at all, the checksum gets altered.
it's
> > EXTREMELY difficult, if at all possible, to get a checksum to line up
again
> > after the data has been changed, and even if you can do it you have to
> > actually make the data you inserted -useful-.
>
> Yes, that has been my point with every mail I have sent on this topic.
> Strange how you have been able to miss it.
>
> file://Olle
>
>



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