Greetings. :)

[Jon A. Lambert]

> From: Shawn Halpenny <rsh at dos.nortel.com>
> On Apr 8,  9:07pm, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
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> Yeah, a CRC32 would give you a magic number for the block (I'm assuming you
> mean something unique-per-block?).  Or if you really wanted to go out the
> window with it, perhaps MD5?  There's some MD5-related stuff (enhanced
> performance alternative) at http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~fishkin/md5/

Aye, Thanks Shawn.  This is exactly what I was looking for.