Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:12:53 +0100 From: "Alson van der Meulen" <alm@flutnet.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sha1 program Message-ID: <20011215181253.U10171@md2.mediadesign.nl> In-Reply-To: <E16FDS3-0003kr-00@gadolinium.btinternet.com> References: <20011215062918.F74051-400000@siteintegrity.net> <E16FDS3-0003kr-00@gadolinium.btinternet.com>
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:58:14AM +0000, Dominic Marks wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2001 11:34 am, Mike Wiacek wrote: > > We currently have a MD5 driver, but no SHA1 driver, even though > > we have SHA1 as part of libmd. So I took md5.c from > > /usr/src/sbin/md5 and made sha1.c as well as a respective man page. > > Attached is the source file, the manual page for it, as well as a > > makefile. > > > > Hope this is useful and makes its way into the tree. Md5 has some > > questionable attacks against it, and Schneier claims that > > sha is resillient to such attacks. > > > > mike > > Why not have one program for all the supported hash algorithms as > opposed to individual ones for each (md5, sha1) ? > > You could use something like: > > > hash -a md5 /some/file > > hash -a sha1 /some/other/file It's called openssl. openssl dgst -md5 openssl dgst -sha1 ... You could write a wrapper for this, or just type the 14 extra characters ;) HTH, Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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