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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:57:29 -0700 (MST)
From:      Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more general checksum command, replacing md5?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971028185709.22638A-100000@roguetrader.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710290116.CAA07555@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Mikael Karpberg wrote:

> According to Brandon Gillespie:
> > Just curious, with the inclusion of SHS hashing in crypt(), would anybody
> > consider a generalized checksum command?  It wouldn't be too hard to make
> > a general 'cs' or 'checksum' command that accepts arguments to determine
> > the algorithm being used... ala: 
> 
> Er... Why not, in that case, just add those options to the chsum program?

Because the checksum program is 'md5'

> Having more then one general checksum program seems to be overdoing it.

my point exactly.




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