Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:58:14 +0000 From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> To: Mike Wiacek <mike@siteintegrity.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sha1 program Message-ID: <E16FDS3-0003kr-00@gadolinium.btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <20011215062918.F74051-400000@siteintegrity.net> References: <20011215062918.F74051-400000@siteintegrity.net>
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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 -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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