[pdftex] [bug] \pdfmdfivesum returning wrong value

[Taco Hoekwater]

Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the value returned by
> 
> \pdfmdfivesum{plain.tex}
> \bye
> 
> is
> 
> 75A63AD4F2BDE3BCCE62E19E4A77AB15

This is the md5 sum of the 9-byte string "plain.tex".

> which is significantly different from
> 
>> $ gpg --print-md md5 `kpsewhich plain.tex`
>> texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex: 41 C2 6C 4F 5E FA 32 DF  39 78 59 08 0C 65 7E D9

And this is the md5 sum of the 44639 byte string contained inside
the file plain.tex.

So they calculate two very different things.

Best wishes, Taco