small idea for nice message digest feature

Malte Gell malte_gell@t-online.de
Mon Apr 1 02:09:01 2002


Hello,
was just playing with GnuPG/GnuPP under Windows when I had a little idea,=
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maybe it could be considered in future releases of GPA ?

Under Linux it's easy to get a message digest e.g. with md5sum or a SHA1=20
digest with

gpg --print-md sha1  verycool.bin

So GnuPG can very well be used to get a MD5/SHA1/RIPEMD160 digest, under=20
Windows there's usually no tool that can do that job, but.... the win32 G=
nuPG=20
version of course can do that under Windows.

So it may be useful if the GPA / Windows version of GPA can make use of t=
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GnuPG message digest functions, so in the future Windows users might be a=
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to check authenticity of software with messages digests usnig GnuPG/GPA a=
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for Linux newbies it would be easier with GPA than using the command line=
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=2E..just an idea

regards
Malte