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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next prev parent 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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