Timeline for Can zipping a file break it?
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| May 13, 2011 at 14:36 | comment | added | Random832 | The term "checksum" has clearly become somewhat broader in meaning than its original definition if people can [and they do] call the results of cryptographic hash functions "checksums". | |
| May 13, 2011 at 9:08 | comment | added | Bevan | Forgive the pedantry, but ZIP doesn't use a checksum - it uses a 32 bit cyclic redundancy check (aka CRC-32) which detects a much wider range of errors. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 5:07 | comment | added | akira | irrelevant since zip is using lossless compression (or 'storage', compression could be disabled). checksumming is only to beeing able to provide some feedback if something went wrong. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 2:37 | history | answered | zerkms | CC BY-SA 3.0 |