Re: Disc ID Calculation
robert nospam at moon.eorbit.net
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:59:25 -0800 (PST)
On 18 Mar, Greg Stein wrote:
> robert nospam at moon.eorbit.net wrote:
>> On 18 Mar, Greg Stein wrote:
>> ...
>> > [ I would love for somebody on the CD Index list to educate me on the
>> > rationale for the change... thx! ]
>>
>> Well, a ton of people complained that the MD5 algorithm was 'not free
>> enough' and that the code was sensitive to the endianess of the host
>> machine. So, the changes reflect moving to SHA1 and the avoid byte
>> order problems.
>
> Actually, I was referring to "why the change from the CDDB algorithm" ?
>
> In other words: why use an MD5/SHA1 hash?
I didn't like 'fuzziness' of the CDDB algorithm. I decided that the
fuzziness of the CD identification best be handled by the database and
not by the id calculation algorithm.
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