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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 20:28:51 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, audit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sha1 support in md5(1)
Message-ID:  <20010502202850.G5017@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010503012023.A8BA03E2B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:20:23PM -0700
References:  <20010502200930.F5017@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010503012023.A8BA03E2B@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:20:23PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> If we can get the OpenSSL folks to stick those spaces in there for us
> that'd be the best.  Then, we just add links for 'md5', 'sha1',
> etc. to openssl in /usr/bin (I've always thought /sbin was a bad place
> for md5(1), anyway).  Failing that, we find a way to run the output
> through something like:
>=20
> 	sed -E 's/^(.+)\((.+)\)=3D (.+)$/\1 (\2) =3D \3/g'
>=20
> and make links to that.

I agree that /sbin seems like a bad place for a tool like md5(1).  Does
anyone have any idea why it is?

I'm kinda iffy on the idea of making a hack like you suggest.  IMO,
perhaps for the sake of standardization we should simply drop md5(1)
and provide links for OpenSSL.  I think that the scripts that would
break would only gain from the standardization by not needing any
"special" code for FreeBSD anymore (of course this is mainly for people
who do crossplatform scripts, though I guess OpenSSL is a bit of a new
thing).  Ports can easily make the transition since all supported
versions of FreeBSD already have OpenSSL.

Perhaps Poul-Henning would like to comment on this.

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