> I'm writting a small C/S protocol. It includes sending/receiving > database records. > Would you suggest to send and check a MD5 checksum? > May be it is OK to live with this overhead only upon database write > requests?
Why send MD5 checksum ? To detect errors ? => No need: TCP stream already has error detection and correction To detect "man in the middle" data alteration ? => Well why not if you need this kind of security and doesn't want to use SSL -- Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
