On Oct 9, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
- How many common public softwares (downloadable from a Web page)
do MD5 or SHA?
* Apache (PGP, MD5)
* PHP (MD5)
* Mozilla (PGP, MD5, SHA - from the FTP server only)
* Most Linux distros
I know, that's all softare for geeks, but I'd expect more sites to
consider providing them if they were easier for a user to use, or
in fact handled automatically.
Be that as it may, the microformats process requires an abundance of
currently published content. Checksums face a common chicken-egg
problem. Better software would encourage publishers to use
checksums; more published checksums would encourages software
developers to make better software. But where do we start - with
publishers or software developers? Microformats are based on the
idea that it's better for publishers to lead and software developers
to follow because there are many more publishers than software
developers. If your hope for the future of checksums is based on the
assumption that software developers should take the lead,
microformats are probably not the best way to make that happen.
Peace,
Scott
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