Re: [PLUG] SHA utility (found it!)
Sandy and Steve, thanks for your responses. I noticed that I don't have sha1sum in
Debian. Dunno why.
I did find an implementation of SHA-1 in RFC 3174, so I used that.
Sam
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Sandy Herring wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Steve Beattie wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:27:41PM -0800, Sandy Herring wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Sam wrote:
> > > > I am implementing the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) for a class assignment. Can
> > > > someone point me to a Linux utility that calculates SHA which I may use
> > > > for reference.
> > > > Thanx,
> > > >
> > > > Sam
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/sha1sum
> > >
> > > (man -k SHA | grep SHA)
> >
> > Not sure what package that's a part of, but a widely distributed
> > alternative would be openssl's sha1 command, used like so:
> >
> > [kryten steve]$ openssl sha1 < docs/quotes
> > dfdef18664e49005391b44e8fb75751a2f46702b
>
> It's part of textutils and included in the RH7.2 release.
>
> [root@kippered root]# rpm -q --file /usr/bin/sha1sum
> textutils-2.0.14-2
>
> `man sha1sum' shows...
>
> AUTHOR
> Written by Ulrich Drepper and Scott Miller.
>
> REPORTING BUGS
> Report bugs to <bug-textutils@gnu.org>.
>
> Sandy
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