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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Subject: Re: bin/28988: We need more simple message digesting tools 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/28988; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/28988: We need more simple message digesting tools 
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:20:00 -0700

 Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> writes:
 > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:26:22AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
 > >> Yes, I know openssl dgst -whatnot can do this. But the md5 program is heavily
 > >> used, and thereby I think we should have sha1 and rmd160 too.
 > > Used by whom, and why aren't they using openssl(1)?
 > 
 > MD5 checksums are quite heavily used in FreeBSD, and AFAIK most people
 > use the md5 program for generating MD5 fingerprints of files. At least,
 > I do, and I haven't heard about anyone using openssl(1) for it in
 > FreeBSD until recently. :-)
 > 
 > > The latter is more portable and more up-to-date.
 > 
 > More portable?
 
 That too.
 
 > md5(1) is just a frontend for libmd. If I make md5(1) use
 > libcrypto instead, would that be better?
 
 Why?  What's wrong with:
 
 	ln -s /usr/bin/openssl md5
 
 works for sha, sha1, ripemd160, and a few other algorithms.  The only
 thing wrong with it is that openssl doesn't support some of the
 options md5(1) does, and has a slightly different output format.

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