[Cryptography] let's do something intelligent about md5sum!

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Mon Jun 15 03:37:16 EDT 2015


On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 02:18:36PM -0700, John Denker wrote:
> 
> Therefore I suggest that rather than focusing on
> b2sum, we should be thinking in terms of a
>    chksum
> package that takes a grown-up approach to the 
> life-cycle issue:
>   -- It should know what to do with a legacy md5sum.
>   -- It should know how to generate something better
>    if-and-when possible.
>   -- It should function correctly during the
>    transition periods between generations.
>   -- That includes recognizing that it, too, will 
>    have to be phased out at some point!
>   -- It may have to be a package of things, not
>    a just a single program.

It could be useful that it supports multiple hashes at the same
file, so that you can have a period of time where you have both,
and that things that know about the newer can already use the
newer one without having to wait for everybody to be ready.


Kurt



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