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. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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