On Sat 26 Aug 2017 at 20:07:34 +0100, Brian wrote: > 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?
The libdigest-sha-perl package appears to be what I want. I've avoided any serious contact with Perl for many, many years. -- Brian.
