RFC: cksum --base64/-b support

2023-01-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi Pádraig! Happy new year (belatedly ;-). Hope you're well. I'd like our generated announcements to be able to include base64-encoded checksums without having to recommend verifying them using openbsd's cksum, so... I've begun writing the code to add --base64/-b support for GNU cksum, prompted b

Re: RFC: cksum --base64/-b support

2023-01-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:40 PM Jim Meyering wrote: ... > - I'm inclined to work like the openbsd cksum and accept invocations > like "cksum -a sha1x" and "cksum -a sha1b". Any objection? Actually, I am now **disinclined** to implement this part. It'd make sense only if we were able to compute m