On 01/07/11 10:40, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > It would appear that sha512sum is broken, at least in the F12 distro > (coreutils-7.6-5.fc12.fa1.armv5tel). It is producing a different hash > for the same file compared to what my x86 machines produce. This is > quite worrying and a potentially dangerous crypto-security issue. > > The only thing that comes to mind as a potential cause (other than a > bug) is that I am using gcc/libgcc from F13 with F12 coreutils. I just > updated coreutils to the F13 package (coreutils-8.4-5.fc13.armv5tel), > and that produces the correct hashes. > > Can anybody with a clean F12 vanilla copy check if they can reproduce > the problem? No problem here. ARM: coreutils-7.6-5.fc12.fa1.armv5tel [root@ivmon ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/z bs=512 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 0.000959 s, 5.3 MB/s [root@ivmon ~]# sha512sum /tmp/z 1f1e6f098e99bb0ab52c3142f0fb545b00470d267823d44fd609fdaae1a6f45fb437de931fa16bbb4a702c0cba7abb9954b737ff4edb30f16ae39a2c67ee6bb7 /tmp/z [root@ivmon ~]# x86_64: coreutils-8.8-2.fc15.x86_64 [agreen@otae Downloads]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/z bs=512 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 7.6686e-05 s, 66.8 MB/s [agreen@otae Downloads]$ sha512sum /tmp/z 1f1e6f098e99bb0ab52c3142f0fb545b00470d267823d44fd609fdaae1a6f45fb437de931fa16bbb4a702c0cba7abb9954b737ff4edb30f16ae39a2c67ee6bb7 /tmp/z [agreen@otae Downloads]$ Check with ldd what it is linking to. -Andy _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm