Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I would think that finding two plain text files with the same MD5 >that a mail message receiver finds an acceptable read is rather >unlikely though. (Just generally speaking. CRUX Linux for >example uses signify for package checksums, but still generates >MD5 checksums as a fallback. CRC32 is

Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ken Hornstein wrote in <20221228151732.bd63b1d2...@pb-smtp20.pobox.com>: ... |MUA that generates that header or checks it. I'm not even sure we |calculate the digest correct for text types, it was a mess in terms |of implementation, _and_ MD5 is Officially Considered Broken. Calling ... I

Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Ken Hornstein
>> Seems like they should maybe emit warnings for a release > >Yes, i.e. be deprecated. But that ship has sailed and I don't think Ken >would be pleased if I added them back in so they could be deprecated. Sigh. Ralph, you and I don't agree on Content-MD5, which is fine. But I have to point

Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
ralph wrote: > Hi Paul, > > > > - The generation and verification of Content-MD5 headers is no > > > longer performed. The -check and -nocheck switches to various nmh > > > programs that would control this functionality still exist, but > > > are non-functional

Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Paul, > > - The generation and verification of Content-MD5 headers is no > > longer performed. The -check and -nocheck switches to various nmh > > programs that would control this functionality still exist, but > > are non-functional and will be removed in the next

Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Paul Fox
ralph wrote: > --- > DEPRECATED FEATURES > --- > > - The generation and verification of Content-MD5 headers is no > longer performed. The -check and -nocheck switches to various nmh > programs that would control this

Re: nmh 1.8?

2022-12-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > Greetings as we approach the new year. Yes, hello all. Hope you've had a nice Christmas. > What does everyone think of pushing out a 1.8 soon? +1 > Here are changes since 1.7.1: > https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/plain/docs/pending-release-notes