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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-03-31 20:20:41 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-03-31 20:20:41 -0400
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@@ -13,13 +13,9 @@ This uses two directories, each with a three-letter name, such as "f87/4d5"
The directory names come from the md5sum of the [[key|key_format]].
-Note that you cannot use the `md5sum` utility from coreutils to generate
-the same hash. Why it generates something else is unknown. The md5 hash
-libraries for programming languages will work though.
-
For example:
- python -c 'import hashlib, sys; print hashlib.md5(sys.argv[1]).hexdigest()'
+ echo -n "SHA256E-s0--e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855" | md5sum
## old hash format