Re: feature request for coreutils: b2sum

[Eric Blake]

On 06/05/2015 10:06 AM, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, Pádraig. I'll submit a feature request to openssl.
> 
> I think the name of the command is actually important:
> 
> My goal here is to make md5sum extinct, because it is unsafe. That's
> why we made BLAKE2 to be faster than MD5, because we figured that we'd
> never managed to extinguish md5sum usage as long as the suggested
> replacement was slower.
> 
> Likewise, I think it is important that the command be named "b2sum",
> or something similarly memorable and pronounceable, because I imagine
> that something named "chksum -a blake2sp" will never take over from
> something named "md5sum". That's the way people are, I've noticed. :-)

It's perfectly okay for distros to install:

$ cat /path/to/b2sum
#!/bin/sh
exec /path/to/cksum -a blake2sp "$@"

or some such wrapper, even if upstream coreutils decides to go with only
one common app that handles all hash types.

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