shasum generates file hashes using the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA1). It is intended to be a replacement for md5sum(1), as MD5 has known attacks where collisions can be produced.
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Correction de quelques bogues dans la mise en œuvre du CSA, shasum passe maintenant toutes les FIPS-180-1 vecteurs de test et correction de quelques possibles zéro octet retourne malloc. Il s'agit de la dernière sortie avant shasum est modifié pour inclure dans le textutils GNU.
Fixed a couple of bugs in the SHA implementation, shasum now passes all the FIPS-180-1 test vectors, and fixed some possible zero-byte malloc returns. This is the last release before shasum is modified for inclusion into the GNU textutils.