Subject: Re: do md5sums differ across architectures?

From: Jeffrey Hawkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:09:22 -0600

Kevin,

Don't know what is going on with your md5sum, but
I ran it on a LinuxPPC 2.2.17 System and a SunOS 5.6,
and got the same results ??????  The version of md5sum
on Linux was 1.22, and the version on Sun was 2.0.

Jeff

,"Kevin B. Hendricks" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just to have a bit of fun, how about this (3 different systems)
> Each generates a different md5sum but all generate the same cksum!
> (and adding -b to md5sum makes no difference)
>
> Darwin khendricksmac 1.2 Darwin Kernel Version 1.2: Wed Aug 30 23:32:53 PDT 2000; root:xnu/xnu-103.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
>
> [khendricksmac:~] kbhend% md5sum oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> 9c6a44ad66572c834e282eb1ec665374  oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> [khendricksmac:~] kbhend% cksum oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> 2458761606 56057947 oo619b_src.tar.bz2
>
> SunOS crunch 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
>
> kbhend$ md5sum oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> 278c21a764126027cba9cb685b7e96cf  oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> kbhend$ cksum oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> 2458761606      56057947        oo619b_src.tar.bz2
>
> Linux localhost 2.2.17pre10-ben2 #3 Sun Aug 13 13:03:45 EDT 2000 ppc unknown
>
> [kbhend@localhost /src2]$ md5sum oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> c4a5d7bda6973f6b56e725295d1b3dfb  oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> [kbhend@localhost /src2]$ cksum oo619b_src.tar.bz2
> 2458761606 56057947 oo619b_src.tar.bz2
>
> I guess md5sum is not a very reliable or consistent checksum measure for moving
> files between ppc linux, MacOSX, and Solaris 7 Sparc.
>
> Back to the old cksum for me.
>
> Kevin
>

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