From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 19 4:30:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B1037B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6JBUUQ90727; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107191130.f6JBUUQ90727@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Anders Nordby Subject: Re: bin/28988: We need more simple message digesting tools Reply-To: Anders Nordby Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/28988; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Anders Nordby To: Dima Dorfman Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/28988: We need more simple message digesting tools Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:28:57 +0200 On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: >> 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 The fact that md5 dgst -sha1 does not make sence, and that md5(1) is expected to output differently and have other options. > 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. Is there a problem with having both md5/rmd160/sha1(1) and openssl(1)? As long as we have libmd and they all work/are correct, I think not. Regards, -- Anders. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message