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2004 Apr 08
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[librsync-devel] librsync and rsync vulnerability to maliciously crafted data. was Re: MD4 checksum_seed
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:36, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 5 Apr 2004, Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> > librsync needs a whole file checksum. Without it, it silently fails for
> > case 1), 3), and 4).
>
> Yes, a whole-file checksum should be used with it. Presumably
> something stronger than md4 like SHA-1.
md4 is probably good enough for most