MD5 discrepancy in 6.0-RELEASE/src/CHECKSUM.MD5

[RW]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:33, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> On 12/8/05, James Long <list at museum.rain.com> wrote:
> > Inside the CHECKSUM.MD5 file, however, it says that its own
> > checksum should be
> >
> > MD5 (CHECKSUM.MD5) = 6ee62cd847afff4cadf6648389c67a11
>
> This is interesting; how can the MD5 of a file be contained inside the
> file itself? Or rather, how can one correctly place it there? Since
> the MD5 algorithm does not converge, I would think this was
> impossible. Is it not?

Hopefully.

The CHECKSUM.SHA256 file also contains a wrong entry for the CHECKSUM.MD5 but 
no entry for itself. Other directories have CHECKSUM.MD5 files which don't 
contain a hash for themselves. 

I guess an old CHECKSUM.MD5 file got included accidently.