Subject: Re: rdist vs. sup
To: Ronald Khoo <ronald@cpm.COM.MY>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/03/1995 15:59:26
[ On Fri, March  3, 1995 at 10:39:30 (+0000), Ronald Khoo wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: rdist vs. sup
>
> So, yes, a confidence CRC at the end of the whole file (or better
> still something longer e.g. like an MD5 signature) would be useful.

If someone does want to go to the trouble of changing sup, I'd vote for
an MD5 signature with some alternate transmission (i.e. not directly
in-band in the same virtual circuit, maybe even as e-mail?) of the
signature.

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