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Programming Forum and web based access to our favorite programming groups.I wrote a simple script which acts like tee, but instead of storing the contents of the stream, it stores checksums of the stream. Later one can check the integrity of a copy of the stream. The intent is to put it between mkisofs and cdrecord, then validate the CD by checking the output of readcd. However, the current implementation (using *::MD5 module) takes too much of the resources (circa 50% CPU with 4x DVD-R stream on this Athlon 850). Obviously, md5 is an overkill in this situation, when errors are not due to a malicious agency. Is there a lower overhead strong checksum module for Perl? (I mean something much stronger than pack '%32', which would miss many patterns of errors.) Thanks, Ilya
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