File containing its own checksum

Question

Is it possible to create a file that will contain its own checksum (MD5, SHA1, whatever)? And to upset jokers I mean checksum in plain, not function calculating it.

Answer 1

"I wish my crc32 was 802892ef..."

Well, I thought this was interesting so today I coded a little java program to find collisions. Thought I'd leave it here in case someone finds it useful:

import java.util.zip.CRC32;

public class Crc32_recurse2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

        long endval = Long.parseLong("ffffffff", 16);

        long startval = 0L;
//      startval = Long.parseLong("802892ef",16); //uncomment to save yourself some time

        float percent = 0;
        long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
        long updates = 10000000L; // how often to print some status info

        for (long i=startval;i

The output:

49.825756% through - done 2140M so far - 1731000 tested per second - 1244s till the last value.
50.05859% through - done 2150M so far - 1770000 tested per second - 1211s till the last value.
Match found!!! Message is:
I wish my crc32 was 802892ef...
crc32 of message is 802892ef

Note the dots at the end of the message are actually part of the message.

On my i5-2500 it was going to take ~40 minutes to search the whole crc32 space from 00000000 to ffffffff, doing about 1.8 million tests/second. It was maxing out one core.

I'm fairly new with java so any constructive comments on my code would be appreciated.

"My crc32 was c8cb204, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!"