Re: MRM and Bytecode Hash.

2006-03-27 Thread Brett Porter
+1, with comments :) Is this just bytecode (ie, classfiles), or is it a hash of the contents of all files? The latter sounds good for arbitrary zip files (and other archives when supported). Cheers, Brett Joakim Erdfelt wrote: > I would like to see a new hash technique be added to the index. >

MRM and Bytecode Hash.

2006-03-27 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
I would like to see a new hash technique be added to the index. Here's the scenario. You have an anonymous ant.jar, and want to find out what it is. Using the traditional hashing technique, the entire file is hashed and a unique hash identification string is calculated. A problem occurs when th