[PATCH] Add an utility to calculate hashes over a set of files

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Dec 16 18:10:10 CET 2013


On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:41, dbaryshkov at gmail.com said:

> An utility like rhash that has the ability to calculate different hashes
> over a set of files it usefull. Add gchash utility to calculate hashes
> supported by libgcrypt.

I can't see why Libgcrypt needs to provide such a tool.  It is a library
and applications should provide user interafces.  For example gpg has a
feature to create digests for all Libgcrypt supported algorithms.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

ps.
Sorry, for rejecting/commenting the 3 patches at a time.

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