On Sat 26 Aug 2017 at 20:37:01 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXV, Brian a écrit : > > echo 'secretpassword' | > > echo 'secretpassword site-name' > > > sha256sum - | base64 > > Very bad: since sha256sum outputs its result in hexadecimal, it only has > half the entropy it seems to have. The same thing with Perl's > Digest::b64digest would be much better.
Thanks. That is the sort of analysis I was after, (Although I will have to work out why hexadecimal matters). May I impose and ask how Digest::b64digest would be used in a command line string of commands? -- Brian.
