On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:49:51PM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> [2007-01-22 14:30]: > > wes-4 the sha*sum commands (and any other commands delivered by this > > project which use cryptographic hashes) should use one of the > > existing hash function implementations in Solaris rather than > > delivering a new copy. (see libmd(3LIB)). > > Disagree on economic grounds. The cryptographic functions in the > package are Project Private and, at present, deviation would introduce > a maintenance cost not borne by other distributions that choose to > include these utilities.
Couldn't these be implemented as simple shell script wrappers around digest(1)?
