Re: Message Prequalification for Digest

[Tony M. <to...@sp...>]

> During my limited attempts to port the basic check routines over to .NET

Which .NET language are you porting to?

> i noticed that there are no minimum requirements before the hash is
> calculated.

That's not completely correct.  There has to be at least one line
whose normalised length is 8 characters or more, otherwise there are
no offsets, and no digest.  A message with very little text will have
a completely different digest to a different message with very little
text.

However, the basic point is correct - the smaller the message, the
less unique the hash is.  As I've indicated previously, I think the
digest specification needs re-examining, but I don't think it's
something that I should or will get to this year.

Cheers,
Tony