[U-Boot-Users] Accessing mkimage checksum

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Apr 28 11:54:22 CEST 2006


In message <20060428080933.11288.qmail at web15903.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> 
> Ummm, the rule is that you should provide the
> crc32 checksum first to check before sending
> it out. Some unexpection would happen to the 
> file via email or transferring process. This
> is also true for md5sum file for download
> cases:-)

I don't think that crc32 is a good  choice  for  such  purposes.  But
YMMV.

I think we should stop this discussion now. It is off topic anyway.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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