verifying hashes with GnuPG

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Tuesday 20 July 2010 at 9:24:00 PM, in
<mid:20100720202400.GB4236 at hiro.matrix>, Michel Messerschmidt wrote:


> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:14:16PM -0400,
> vedaal at nym.hush.com wrote:
>> Is there a gnupg command to verifiy a hash, not a signature, (e.g.
>> MD5, SHA1, SHA256), by entering the hash string and the file or
>> text it corresponds to?

> Why would you want to use gnupg for this if md5sum,
> sha1sum, sha256sum, etc. are available for most
> systems?

Maybe he wanted to check if an app he already installed would perform
this function before downloading another app to do it?


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