Package: hashalot Version: 0.3-5 Severity: minor Hashalot allows you to read non-interactive files by doing something like this
sha512 < /etc/hosts Unfortunately hashalot is programmed to keyboard input. This means it stops reading its input when reading a null byte (0) or line feed (10). This makes it truncate the input when reading binary data (for example from /dev/random). I think the manual page should reflect this. Otherwise people (like me) will depend on truncated binary input and wonder why other hash tools (like sha512sum) produce different output in some cases. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-bpo.2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hashalot depends on: ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries hashalot recommends no packages. Versions of packages hashalot suggests: ii cryptsetup 2:1.0.6-7 configures encrypted block devices ii dmsetup 2:1.02.27-4 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
