Suggestion: bmap files and bmaptool

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 11:44 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:21:23PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 10:37 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:31:22AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Other things like reading from remote sites, progress indicator,
> > > > protecting your mounted disks, uncompressing on-the-fly, checking sha1
> > > > of the data ond of the bmap file itself - are goodies, although
> > > > important ones.
> > > 
> > > Why sha1? If the check is there for security reasons, please use at
> > > least sha256.
> > 
> > Should not be difficult to implement if there is demand.
> 
> SHA-256 is used to create the signatures of other distributed files:
> https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-19-i386-CHECKSUM

FYI, I've implemented SHA-256 support and it will be the default for
bmaptool soon. I also made sure other hash functions can be used as well
(e.g., SHA-512).

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy