Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...
On 9/26/20, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>>On 9/25/20, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Just one would be good enough (pick the sha256sum). What you're doing is
>>> a waste of time. If you want to future proof then use sha3, via the
>>> rhash package.
>>
>> Something that I have noticed is that texts are too close to people's
>>hearts to expect for people to just be technical about them. I use
>>those three algorithms because some people "understand", md5 and not
>>sha###sum. I mean, you may get some legacy data with their md5sum but
>>the maintainers of the data may not be around. Once I found an rsync
>>log that included the CRC signatures, that is why I include these
>>kinds fo algorithms.
>
> Sorry, still makes no sense and is a waste of time. You're creating new
> hashes right now, it doesn't matter if someone else might have made some
> other hash some other time.
But how could you have some assurance that that data relates to what
their users thought of to be?
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