[Aide] Checksums

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Wed Oct 26 21:09:44 EEST 2005


Stefan Götz wrote:
> The MD5 and SHA1 checksums reported by aide 0.10 differ from those
> reported by md5sum and sha1sum - why is that? Shouldn't the algorithms
> produce the same output independent of the implementation?

Good question. Aide uses libmhash to calculate the hashes. Where
available, mmap is used. Are the hashes completely different, or are
they just stored differently (byte order, etc)?

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg


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