Whats the different between the two fingerprints?

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Tue Jan 12 18:59:13 UTC 2016


On 2016-01-12 19:41, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2016-01-12 13:24, olli hauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> whats the different between the two fingerprints ?
>>
>> 1) 23eb3a878c79d9c982ffe8e0041dfb5d7526d9bce868f60bcd51b00c86215d9f
>> 2) 23EB3A878C79D9C982FFE8E0041DFB5D7526D9BCE868F60BCD51B00C86215D9F
>>
>>
>> For human both are the same, but not if tested with (md5|sha1|sha256|sha512|rmd160) -c $string
>>
>> Unluckily some vendors providing fingerprints in uppercase (pointing e.g. to HP).
>> The fix is really trivial to implement in src/sbin/md5/md5.c (low hanging fruit)
>>
>> If a dev with src commit has 5min, it would be nice if the one can look at PR 205598
>>
> 
> there is a PR for this. It is being worked on.
> 

Yes, I wrote the PR ;)
Until now it was not taken and I would be very happy to see the fix in stable9/10 before 10.3 is released.

-- 
olli


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