Nicolas Williams wrote: > 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)?
simple shell script wrapper probably not but maybe. PSARC/2005/530 has been approved but not yet delivered (due to resource constraints). -- Darren J Moffat
