Package shash: Information

Source package: shash

Version: 0.2.6-alt1

Build time:  Jan 25, 2006, 02:29 AM

Category: File tools

Home page: http://hq.hellug.gr/~mcrypt/shash/

License: GPL

Summary: Generates or checks digests or MACs

Description: 

Shash is a program intended to produce message digests for files, or it can
check with the output of a former run whether the message digests are still
the same (i.e. whether the files changed). Shash uses several hash algorithms.
Since everyone can generate the message digest, it may not be suitable for
some security related applications.

Because of this shash also supports HMAC (rfc2104), which is a mechanism for
message authentication using cryptographic hash functions. So shash can use
a key with a hash algorithm to produce hashes that can only be verified with
the key. This way you can securely check (i.e. you are sure that nobody can
modify the mac, without beeing detected) if files in a filesystem were altered.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
shash (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Stanislav Ievlev