Round-up, 2004-10-14
Brian Morrison
bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Thu Oct 14 16:08:01 UTC 2004
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:18:34 -0500 (CDT) in
Pine.LNX.4.58.0410141013060.28830 at weather.admin.niu.edu Gilbert Sebenste
<sebenste at 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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