Re: [gcmd-dev] 1.2.4 release

[Piotr Eljasiak]

> >         * md5sum plugin
> > ...
> >               CTRL+5         Create MD5 (128-bit) checksum
> 
> I would like to ask, would it be possible to add other
> hashing methods (now when the MD5 is proved to be insecure...).

What methods do mean? sha? If so - python (<=2.4) supports SHA-1 method
and it is easy to convert md5sum.py to sha-1.py plugin. Newer version of
python implement 'a common interface to many different secure hash and
message digest algorithms. Included are the FIPS secure hash algorithms
SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512 (defined in FIPS 180-2) as well
as RSA's MD5 algorithm (defined in Internet RFC 1321).' See
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-hashlib.html


Piotr