[parisc-linux] problems with checksums

[Andrew Shugg]

Quoth Randolph Chung:
> Be careful, Debian uses BSD md5sum instead of GNU md5, some other
> Linux systems use GNU md5sum. They produce different output for the
> same input!

It does?  I've never seen a GNU md5sum.  BSD's "md5" program has a
different output format although the algorithm is the same.  Also the
various checksum programs I've found for Windows and Mac OS refer to the
algorithm as 'RSA MD5'.  The only times I've found a discrepancy between
md5sum programs is the Windows command-line one that rudely assumes data
is ascii by default and has to be given the '-b' flag for checksums to
match those generated under a Unix or Mac.

(If you can set me straight off-list I'd be happy to listen.)

Andrew.

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