Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 03:48:41 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: brandon@roguetrader.com (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more general checksum command, replacing md5? Message-ID: <199710290248.DAA07742@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971028185709.22638A-100000@roguetrader.com> from Brandon Gillespie at "Oct 28, 97 06:57:29 pm"
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According to Brandon Gillespie: > 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' I meant the 'cksum' program, ofcourse. And as you say, the one used is the md5 program. That should have been an option in 'cksum' too, instead, I think. Ofcourse, it could detect name started with to auto-select algorithm. That way md5 could be made a hardlink to cksum. /Mikael
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