> The Digest::MD5 solution from Tobias is the best perl-ish > solution, and the one I often use myself. Likewise, the > tools in the gnuwin32 package work well. There are also many > freely (and internationally) available standalone > cksum/md5sum tools you can download off the web -- I'm fond > of Slavasoft's free fsum utility ( > http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/ ), which can generate many > different checksums and digests, including md5, crc32, sha1, > etc, as well as work with the popular *.MD5 and *.SFV file > formats for storing and checking them.
Thanks for the nice summary, and the additional information. I've gotten quite a lot of response, which I greatly appreciate. I've been playing with several. > And if you really want to use PGP.. You can. There's no > restriction on sending the resulting *.ASC or *.SIG files, > only on the PGP binaries itself. And that's not a problem, > either, as there are international versions available that > have already passed the export laws. (IE, your international > users can download them directly, you don't need to send it > as part of a package.) True, except part of the constraint I'm under here is company imposed, which is that WE are to test and supply all internally developed code, plus all third-party code. Even for perl modules, other groups and customers will not download from CPAN -- it is our group's mandate to do that, test for bugs and security problems, and bundle in our packages. best, /dennis ------------------------------------------------ Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." — Scott Adams _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
