Re: Disc ID Calculation
Greg Stein (gstein nospam at lyra.org)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:51:12 -0800
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?
thx
-g
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