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Subject: Re: Uses of corrupt data ...

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:28:26 06/09/04

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On June 08, 2004 at 11:03:28, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>It's an interesting technique, but can you give examples of Chessbase using it.
>

Download all files from Bob's ftp site, pick a few to generate yourself. Change
1 byte ( preferable into a byte with the same "compressed length"), compress,
change creation date to original date, stuff all on a cd.

If somebody is selling cd's with your changed files ( wich would probably only
show up with the md5sum), gotcha !

Tony

>
>Surely, they can't be changing the DTM EGT files themselves, as that would
>change the MD5sum signature and cause WILHELM to cry 'fault'.
>
>Being able to check your MD5sum file-signature is a guard against a fault in the
>publication process, of which there has been a recent example.
>
>g



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