[U-Boot-Users] RFC: extended image formats

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 15:21:17 CET 2007


On 2/27/07, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to figure out what could be done to add (at least in some
> cases) more information to U-Boot images.
>
> In this case, the existing CRC32 checksum is not sufficient;
> therequirement is to use some stronger hashes (md5 or sha1) to verify
> the correctness of the kernel and file system images.

Just curious, but why isn't CRC32 sufficient exactly?

josh




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