[Info-vax] FTP FYI

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Nov 25 08:21:14 EST 2020


On 2020-11-25, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
> On 11/25/20 12:46 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> OpenVMS is fairly late to adopting file checksums, but the CHECKSUM
>> command does have an only-somewhat-stale SHA-1 checksum support as of V8.4.
>
> Do you mind saying what that should be?
>

Not speaking for Stephen, but SHA-256 would be my absolute minimum and
SHA-512 would be strongly preferred for increased protection against
future attacks.

Simon.

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