[Cryptography] Just in case it isn't obvious...

Patrick Chkoreff patrick at rayservers.net
Mon Feb 27 22:11:07 EST 2017


Tom Mitchell wrote on 02/27/2017 09:28 PM:

> Now I need to look under the hood at:
>   fdupes - finds duplicate files in a given set of directories
>  
> MD5 signatures seem OK for now.
> They do say...
> When using -d or --delete, care should be taken to insure against
> accidental data loss.

I think that's just a general note of caution.  The man page does say this:

> Searches  the  given  path for duplicate files. Such files are found by
> comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures,  followed  by  a  byte-by-byte
> comparison.

That sounds very efficient, but with no risk of a false positive.

By the way, thanks for the mention of fdupes, I had never heard of it
before.  Nice.


-- Patrick



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