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Re: announce-gen and OpenPGP key servers
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: announce-gen and OpenPGP key servers |
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Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:20:02 +0200 |
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Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:
> Thanks, Simon! I too am all for B64-formatted checksums.
Good, it is a trade-off between output readability and code complexity.
Aligning 'sha*sum' with OpenBSD's 'sha*' tools would be nice, and base64
support is one missing piece.
> You may want to coordinate with Pádraig.
> I think he is planning a unification of the checksum-generating tools.
Okay!
> Your patches look fine. One nit: please drop the "Please" here :-)
>
> + print "\nPlease note that the SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not\n";
Thanks, I reworded it a bit further, but I'm not a native speaker so I
appreciate improvements from others.
+ print "\nThe SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not hexadecimal,\n";
+ print "which is the default for most checksum tools.\n\n";
/Simon
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