Question on MD5s

Tresch on 2008/04/05 23:57 of Robot Toast

We're not too familiar with the whole MD5 thing, but if we run the command multiple times on the same file, we get a different string each time. Conversely, we ran the command on two DIFFERENT versions of the file (after changing a filename inside the zip) and got the same key. This has me a bit worried. Can anyone enlighten us?

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richard on 2008/04/05 23:58:

Operating system?

Tresch on 2008/04/05 23:58:

Windows XP

keeyai on 2008/04/06 00:03:

I hashed yours to 7673cd1e722b59a6e403a5f337ed8004 No guarantee it is unique, but maybe it will help you not get DQ'd for no good reason.

Tresch on 2008/04/06 00:05:

we sent the hash we got anyway. Teammate had a good idea. He was running the load file command, then print, several times in one terminal session, which we're suspecting causes the program to append the files together and gives a hash of all the files loaded. Is this correct? I'm suprised that changing a filename inside the zip didn't change the hash, though.

Tresch on 2008/04/06 00:10:

keeyai: I get the same hash, thanks!

erlandr on 2008/04/06 00:12:

Our game is currently available here: http://rapidshare.com/files/105191310/robot_toast_really_final.zip.html

keeyai on 2008/04/06 00:42:

Sigh, my comment above is retarded -- obviously I hashed your old submission, because if that was the one you needed this wouldn't even be an issue. Sorry.