Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : mhash Version : 0.2.6 Upstream Author : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mcrypt.hellug.gr/shash * License : GPL Description : program to produce message digests using libmhash (HMAC RFC 2104 supported)
shash is a program intended to produce message digests for files, or it can check with the output of a former run whether the message digests are still the same (i.e. whether the files changed). Shash uses several hash algorithms. Since everyone can generate the message digest, it may not be suitable for some security related applications. Because of this, shash also supports HMAC (rfc2104), which is a mechanism for message authentication using cryptographic hash functions. So shash can use a key with a hash algorithm to produce hashes that can only be verified using the same key. This way you can securely check (i.e. you are sure that nobody can modify the mac, without beeing detected) if files in a filesystem were altered. This can be very usefull if you want to make sure that no executable files or other important files in a filesystem have been altered by a virus or by an intruder. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.23 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
