[Aide] Checksums

Stefan Götz stefan.goetz at uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Oct 27 04:15:50 EEST 2005


> 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)?

I confirmed that libmhash and md5sum do produce the same result for MD5.
It seems that the discrepancies with aide are merely due to the hex
output by md5sum/sha1sum and the base64 output by aide.

Stefan
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