Re: [PLUG] free courses, systemd Win, hashquines

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 9/25/22 16:53, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 03:01:41PM -0400, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> > On 9/25/22 04:29, brent timothy saner via plug wrote:
> > > On 9/24/22 16:30, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> > ...
> > > > I don't trust MD5 for external files, but I still run md5sum on
> > > > directories to check for duplicate files, mainly because it's a lot
> > > > faster than sha1sum. Are there alternatives you recommend?
> > ...
> >
> > > Mini-Rosetta for you:
> > > (SH) md5sum => b2sum (part of coreutils; it's likely already installed)
> >
> > It was already installed for me on Debian-10, which is near EoL.  But holy cow the hashes are long!  I use `md5sum` to compare files a lot [1], in part because the hashes are short and don't make my eyes & brain bleed.
>
> That was my reaction too. You can make them shorter with the -l
> parameter, but who knows what that does to the robustness of the
> algorithm?

Probably still better than MD5?  :-)  But...I can remember `md5sum`, not sure how long I'm going to remember `b2sum -l 48`.

...

Later,
JP
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