[PATCH] mdiff: Compare content of binary files directly
Bill Sommerfeld
sommerfeld at sun.com
Fri Aug 8 19:55:21 CDT 2008
Besides the performance improvement, there's also the matter of
correctness -- it is now well understood how to find two binary strings
which hash to the same value with md5.
see, for instance: http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/
hg cannot tell the difference between the "good" and "evil" binaries
made available at that site.
- Bill
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