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From: Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: "bug-gnulib@gnu.org List" <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: announce-gen and OpenPGP key servers
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:20:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf5inxnh.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8g5KEpavcqsGJQ94ykJ+Di4PHVAu5JNJQ1xpTQRR0w3Mnoew@mail.gmail.com> (Jim Meyering's message of "Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:52:54 -0700")

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Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

> Thanks, Simon! I too am all for B64-formatted checksums.

Good, it is a trade-off between output readability and code complexity.
Aligning 'sha*sum' with OpenBSD's 'sha*' tools would be nice, and base64
support is one missing piece.

> You may want to coordinate with Pádraig.
> I think he is planning a unification of the checksum-generating tools.

Okay!

> Your patches look fine. One nit: please drop the "Please" here :-)
>
> +  print "\nPlease note that the SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not\n";

Thanks, I reworded it a bit further, but I'm not a native speaker so I
appreciate improvements from others.

+  print "\nThe SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded and not hexadecimal,\n";
+  print "which is the default for most checksum tools.\n\n";


/Simon

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-03 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-27  9:38 announce-gen and OpenPGP key servers Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2021-07-27 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-28  1:57 ` Jim Meyering
2021-08-03 15:40   ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2021-08-03 17:52     ` Jim Meyering
2021-08-03 19:20       ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list [this message]
2021-08-03 19:25         ` Paul Eggert
2021-08-03 23:51           ` Jim Meyering
2021-08-04  9:19             ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2021-08-01 15:47 ` Bernhard Voelker
2021-08-02 10:09   ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list

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