Scripsit Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You may laugh if you wish, but I think it's annoying to have to move to > a hash function whose hexadecimal representation takes 64 bytes, which > doesn't leave much room on an 80-column line to describe what the hash > is hashing. Maybe by the time coreutils ships a sha256sum program, the > world will have settled upon BASE64, which requires only 43 bytes.
Why wait for the world to settle? Would there be anything wrong with writing a sha256sum program that outputs base64 right now? -- Henning Makholm "Lad min høne være." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
