More than md5 on DragonFly – DragonFly BSD Digest

More than md5 on DragonFly

the md5(1) utility on DragonFly now does SHA512 checksums, thanks to Rimvydas Jasinskas. You can see it as a separate ‘sha512’ binary in /sbin, but it’s a hard link back to the original md5, if I’m reading the commit right.

6 Replies to “More than md5 on DragonFly”

Anonymous says:

2017/12/29 at 23:53

Shouldn’t a “sha” ultility perform sha512 checksum instead of the md5 Utility
Justin Sherrill says:

2017/12/29 at 23:57

It does. Run the /sbin/sha512 binary.
John says:

2017/12/30 at 09:49

the program performs different functions based on the name used to invoke it.

md5 and sha512 are the same file (it’s hardlinked as mentioned).
If you execute it as “md5”, you get md5 output. If you execute it as “sha512” you get sha functionally.

Look at every binutils, compiler and ld program. They are all hardlinked to the same program. Same thing.
Anonymous says:

2017/12/30 at 12:49

Am I the only one that heard in my head, “Transformers! More than MD5!”
Justin Sherrill says:

2017/12/30 at 12:57

Not the only one, now.
Harald von Fellenberg says:

2017/12/31 at 11:23

you can find all of the shaxx and many more hash codes in http://fehashmac.sourceforge.net/ .

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