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April 15, 2005
Wheres my md5sum ?
There are various commands available for generating the digest
of a file on Solaris 10:
The digest(1) command can also be invoked as mac(1), in this mode it takes a key (either from a file or from user input),
and instead of a digest produces a message authentication code (HMAC). digest(1)/mac(1) currently supports MD5 and SHA-1
hashes/hmacs and will be extended to support SHA-{256,384,512} when support for PKCS#11 v2.20 is added to a future
Solaris release.
of a file on Solaris 10:
islay$ /usr/bin/digest -a md5 /lib/libc.so.1
92452f571c9cb37f96ab8e1e96af2ff9
islay$ /usr/bin/digest -v -a md5 /lib/libc.so.1
md5 (/lib/libc.so.1) = 92452f571c9cb37f96ab8e1e96af2ff9islay$ /opt/sfw/bin/gmd5sum /lib/libc.so.1
92452f571c9cb37f96ab8e1e96af2ff9 /lib/libc.so.1islay$ /usr/sfw/bin/openssl dgst -md5 /lib/libc.so.1
MD5(/lib/libc.so.1)= 92452f571c9cb37f96ab8e1e96af2ff9
The digest command uses libpkcs11(3lib)
on Solaris and will thus use pkcs11_softtoken(5) by default or a hardware accelerator such as the SCA-1000 or SCA-4000
card if it is available.
The digest(1) command can also be invoked as mac(1), in this mode it takes a key (either from a file or from user input),
and instead of a digest produces a message authentication code (HMAC). digest(1)/mac(1) currently supports MD5 and SHA-1
hashes/hmacs and will be extended to support SHA-{256,384,512} when support for PKCS#11 v2.20 is added to a future
Solaris release.
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Comments ( 1 )
get md5 easily on solairs by typing 'digest', it's so helpful,
thank you very much for your info.