-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 06/10/2006 03:03 PM, rmyster wrote: > Yes, and supposedly it's causing problems for support departments. On > the other hand, if you're looking for the command to calculate sha256 > and sha512 hashes, what are the odds you will be targeting words like > "ALGO"? "HASH" maybe, but "algo"? I'd be curious as to how many users > even know that gpg can do sha256 and sha512 hashes based on what is > written in the docs. I think that we can categorize this task under "Advanced Features", how many un-skilled users need to compute sha2 digests of files? How many of them understand the term "command-line"? How many of them search in documentation before posting to Usenet/ML?
> MD5SUM and SHA1SUM are spelled out as clear as day > in contrast to the ones I was trying to use. I had been using other > applications to get the values. Finding out the right syntax is different from having it under your own eyes and not seeing it. > Still, does anyone know what the coreutils docs are referring to when it > implies that sha512 hashes can be obtained with a command called > "sha512sum" in the same manner of usage as md5sum and sha1sum? > (i.e "sha512sum file") Maybe you could try to tell us what version of coreutils do you have installed and what OS are you using, we don't have a magic ball to ask. Two of your headers: > X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so I suppose you are using SuSE Linux, version 10.1 includes Evolution 2.6.0. Incidentally I am using the same version of this nice distribution, I have coreutils-5.93 here and there is no trace of sha2 support in documentation. However you should have noticed that this is not a linux mailing list. - -- Q.E.D. ICQ UIN: 301825501 OpenPGP key ID: 0x58D14EB3 Key fingerprint: 00B9 3E17 630F F2A7 FF96 DA6B AEE0 EC27 58D1 4EB3 Check fingerprints before trusting a key! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEiuYDH+Dh0Dl5XacRA+fXAJ9pcuMmMNgaqDKpiOdLX2fTwKO/bgCeOQmJ iIJ5nbjM3J8zIiDN/ngZo8Y= =9UW4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
