On Saturday 18 January 2003 23:43, you wrote:

> MD5 has a key collision weakness, which is why we've been using SHA-1
> pervasively.
>
Ok. I used SHA-1 instead.  

> > If we go this route I will add an MD5 FCP command.
>
> How would this help?  An FCP command would require that you send the
> file over the wire...
I meant I wanted to add the FCP command so that you can write clients that 
verify checksums without requiring an external library.  

If you don't want to deal with an external library then you pay the price of 
sending the data over the wire.

>
>       Scott

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