Re: OS install floppy hangs during boot on Bochs 1.4.1

Steven Taschuk wrote:

> For my next trick... I wonder whether the MD5 algorithm is such
> that the hash for the concatenation of two blocks of bits can be
> determined quickly from the hashes for the two blocks.
I would say that the treatment of the last block would negate this;
it is 'padded' and then hashed.  I suppose you could keep the hashes
of the penultimate blocks and then compute the last blocks' hashes,
but this smacks of a lot of chicanery for not much gain.