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> > new-footprint = old-footprint ^ md5(old-block) ^ md5(new-block)
>
> This part is all good.

I humbly suggest using the more advanced RIPEMD-160, which has been
made public. It is tougher to fool, and produces a longer byte stream.
Slower than MD5 of course (my P5-166 does RIPEMD-160 at about
2 million bytes/sec).

For code, see ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj/1997/1997.01/rmd160.zip

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