there is only md5 sums? [DENIED]

LStranger · Post by **LStranger** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:43 pm

Spectre-Anime does not provide SFV sums but md5 instead, they say they will never provide SFV. But AniDB does not allow add a record with flag "crc matches official source" but without CRC32 sum. So it forces me make unofficial sum but set flag as it is official. Is it good or not? I think it isn't good.

Post by **PetriW** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:47 pm

Personally, if the md5 sum was correct then I would simply generate the crc sum too and say crc is correct.

I mean, if the md5 is correct the chance that the crc is wrong would be like REALLY small.

LStranger · Post by **LStranger** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:01 pm

I meant the phrase "crc matches official source" isn't correct since no official CRC32 sum in that case.

So I propose to allow set "crc matches official source" flag if there is one of crc32 or md5 checksum instead of crc32 forcing.

Post by **PetriW** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:06 pm

No, as the CRC number is included in the ed2k link for verified files we can't have either crc32 or md5, we need the crc32 imho. (And I sure don't want the md5 in my links while the crc32 is very neat.)

Post by **exp** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:37 am

well,

if your file matches the official md5 sum i see no problem in creating an "inofficial" crc sum and declaring it "matches official crc" as there is no official crc and the main point is to mark a file as valid after all.
so having checked it against the official md5 value is already all which is needed to verify a file.
however as PetriW pointed out already we still need the crc value.

BYe!
EXP

shaydwyrm · Post by **shaydwyrm** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 9:56 am

Maybe we should change the text then from "crc matches official source" to something like "hash matches official source"?

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:24 am

leave it CRC since most of the groups release crc info