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It must be implemented by all clients too, so it needs to be simple and readily available.
open to an attack by image by a malevolent attacker
That wasn't one of the design goals.
if you have a tolerance for faulty storage,
There's always the problem of storage corrupting only the checksum even if your data is okay, leaving you in a pretty pickle.
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It must be implemented by all clients too, so it needs to be simple and readily available.
open to an attack by image by a malevolent attacker
That wasn't one of the design goals.
if you have a tolerance for faulty storage,
There's always the problem of storage corrupting only the checksum even if your data is okay, leaving you in a pretty pickle.