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Re:Why S3 went down by jordyhoyt on Sunday July 27, 2008 @12:01AM (#258010)
Do you mean this?

> we're adding checksums to proactively detect corruption of system state messages

I dobut that means they're actually adding them together, they're adding checksums to the process to ensure data corruption has no effect. Or am I misunderstanding you?

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Re:Why S3 went down by michaelneale on Sunday July 27, 2008 @11:33PM (#258682)
They use MD5 in other areas, but not that particular message. So now they will. Do people call hashes "checksums" in a colloquial sense? no one actually uses a "check sum" literally any more do they?
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Re:Why S3 went down by jrsims on Monday July 28, 2008 @05:52PM (#259709)
Right, that's what I meant, 'adding checksums to the process'.
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