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Tus - an Open Source File Upload Protocol
Why use hashing when you only need checksumming?
felixge
on April 17, 2013
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Depending on the use case, man in the middle attacks could be a good reason for hashing.
Filligree
on April 17, 2013
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A man in the middle could just as easily change the hash header, and MD5 isn't cryptographically secure anyway. It
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still a very good checksum.
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