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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 1997 02:16:45 +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:  <199710290116.CAA07555@ocean.campus.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971028125040.20050A-100000@roguetrader.com> from Brandon Gillespie at "Oct 28, 97 12:55:30 pm"

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

  /Mikael



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