On Saturday 15 December 2001 11:34 am, Mike Wiacek wrote:
> We currently have a MD5 driver, but no SHA1 driver, even though
> we have SHA1 as part of libmd. So I took md5.c from
> /usr/src/sbin/md5 and made sha1.c as well as a respective man page.
> Attached is the source file, the manual page for it, as well as a
> makefile.
>
> Hope this is useful and makes its way into the tree. Md5 has some
> questionable attacks against it, and Schneier claims that
> sha is resillient to such attacks.
>
> mike

Why not have one program for all the supported hash algorithms as 
opposed to individual ones for each (md5, sha1) ?

You could use something like:

> hash -a md5 /some/file
> hash -a sha1 /some/other/file

-- 
Dominic

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