in reply to Re^2: MD 5 hash comparison/checker
in thread MD 5 hash comparison/checker

Question 1: "display a snippet?" Not without using an entirely different approach. MD5 is useful ONLY to compare the totality of the files; not of segments. If you really want to know what the differences are, use a tool built for that purpose, or write your own tool using line-by-line comparison (yes, you could do it para by para or use some other unit, but the concept is simple enough line-by-line.).

Question 2: MD6? Why? What-on-earth-good would that do?

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Re^4: MD 5 hash comparison/checker
by daggy (Novice) on May 07, 2010 at 01:00 UTC
    Yup, did a little more research into it and decided to compare SHA1 hashes as opposed to MD5