Bug#469063: md5deep cannot be replaced with shell script

[Jesse Kornblum <jessek@speakeasy.net>]

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Hello,

You are mistaken that md5deep can be replaced by just a line of shell  
script. The program not only able to compute hashes, but do both  
positive and negative matching on previously generated hash sets. For  
example:

1. Recursively hash the /usr directory:

$ md5deep -r /usr > known.txt


2. Search for any matches to a set of known files:

$ md5deep -r research/malware-samples/* > known.txt
$ md5deep -wm known.txt -r /usr
/usr/bin/.../ls matched /home/user/research/malware-samples/rootkit2

3. Search for any files that *don't* match a known file in the set of  
hashes:

$ md5deep -r /usr > known.txt

[time passes]

$ md5deep -rx known.txt /usr
/usr/bin/.../ls


and so on.

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Jesse


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