Re: Round-up, 2004-10-14

[Brian Morrison <bdm fenrir org uk>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:18:34 -0500 (CDT) in
Pine LNX 4 58 0410141013060 28830 weather admin niu edu Gilbert Sebenste
<sebenste weather admin niu edu> wrote:

>  What's a shalsum?

A hash value of a file's contents produced using the sha1sum program
that is part of the coreutils package on rpm-based systems.

SHA stands for secure hash algorithm, in this case SHA1 is a variant of
it that produces a hash length of 160 bits.

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Brian Morrison

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