Re: MD5 Syntax problem

["Vlad Tsyrklevich" <vlad () zoomstats org>]

Michael, 

echo and md5sum are very basic commands that I would think he would 
understand. I thought so because he was smart enough to find md5 -c 
blah-blah-blah -d blah. and I believe echo does exist in DOS (not sure about 
redirection but still pretty sure). Most basic *N?X commands can be found in 
DOS. 



Chris, 

If you are reading this, all it did was create a file and put the string 
"testing for mailing list" into the file called testfile, then it found the 
md5 of it to be 31747f4c8bbdf8c2e64cd2f6bf3b0c19. I then put 
"31747f4c8bbdf8c2e64cd2f6bf3b0c19  testfile" into a file called md5 and 
executed md5sum -c md5, meaning the md5sum command looked into the file md5 
and checked if all the md5's in it were equal. 


Michael Aghayere writes: 

> Vlad, 
>
> It you would have been more helpful if you had explained what each of
> your commands did or preferably sent Chris off to someplace where he
> could glean more information on md5 checksums. 
>
> Spewing out UNIX commands like that only helps at widening the gap
> between "us" in the *nix world and "them" in Windows world. 
>
> Best Regards, 
>
> Michael Aghayere 
>
> Robot Support
> Ultimate Real Robots
> http://www.realrobots.co.uk 
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vlad Tsyrklevich [mailto:vlad () zoomstats org]
> > Sent: 12 February 2003 23:51
> > To: Chris Berry
> > Cc: windows2000 () freelists org; security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Re: MD5 Syntax problem 
> >
> > On my Slackware box I have no problems when I put the actual md5 into
> a
> > file, example: 
> >
> > [~:core-dump] echo "testing for mailing list" > testfile
> > [~:core-dump] md5sum testfile
> > 31747f4c8bbdf8c2e64cd2f6bf3b0c19  testfile
> > [~:core-dump] echo "31747f4c8bbdf8c2e64cd2f6bf3b0c19  testfile" > md5
> > [~:core-dump] md5sum -c md5
> > testfile: OK
> > [~:core-dump] 
> >
> > Try that. 
> >
> > Vlad
> >  --
> >  -Vlad Tsyrklevich



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-Vlad Tsyrklevich