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Skein Hash... In Bash

Posted by Unknown on from the sixty-four-bits-required dept.

First time accepted submitter Matt16060936 writes "...Last night (err.. 3am this morning) I finished an implementation of the Skein 512-512 hash algorithm (version 1.3). I'm a fan of Skein and hope it wins the SHA-3 competition next year. One of the nice things about Skein is how quickly it's been adopted by many platforms and implemented in many languages. To that end, I present Skein 512-512 implemented in Bash."

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  1. Re:Ah, Bash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why not? It's "mostly POSIX-compliant" garbage, whose code sometimes works in Korn shell, used by would-be sysadmins who understand neither Linux nor UNIX.

    The previous poster put it so crisply: "If it weren't for you, I would be a terrible sysadmin. Thanks to you, I am a terrible sysadmin!"

    Is that not the truth!