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Re:What Is the Randomart Image For? by remram on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:43AM (#34883259)
It is weird that this doesn't exist. The algorithm is pretty simple and there are libraries for it, but I couldn't find a generic command-line tool that shows one after hashing any file.

This might be a cool contribution to coreutils (which contains the `sha256sum`, `sha1sum`, `md5sum`, ... programs)

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Re:What Is the Randomart Image For? by refuse on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:13PM (#34885520)
I'm asking this in the wrong place, but does anyone know why coreutils doesn't include sha3 or derivatives?
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Re:What Is the Randomart Image For? by remram on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:17AM (#34895855)
It looks like they discussed it on the mailing-list years ago when it was being selected, but nothing since. Maybe they forgot about it? This is strange.
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