Re: e-transfer from terapix

From: kanoa <kanoa_at_cfht.hawaii.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:34:58 -1000

I'll second this, it would be nice to use a widely available hash format
so we (CFHT) and other users can confirm data integrity. md5 would be
ideal since we already track md5 signiatures for all CFHT data.

-Kanoa


Frederic Magnard wrote:

>>Alternatively, I can provide you with our 'CRC' of the file and you can
>>compare our 'CRC' to value you get by running our crc-generator on the file.
>>The binary for our crc generator is on your machine at
>>
>>clix.iap.fr:/home/nis/cadc/bin/cadcCRC
>
>
> Thanks. Could we please have the source code of this program ?
> Do you plan to switch to a checksum like md5 ? It's almost 2 times faster,
> and the resulting hash is 4 times longer. Did you ever had collision
> problems with this CRC ?
Received on Tue Mar 20 2007 - 16:34:59 HST