Feature request in md5sum and sha1sum

"Eric M. Hopper" <[email protected]> 29 Nov 2002 11:45:59 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Organization Omnifarious Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In various file sharing systems, and in other places, base32 notation is
become standard.  Partly this is because it is a little more human
friendly because case does not matter and it's shorter than base16. 
This is also partly because the two most commonly used digest formats
are a multiple of 5 bits long.

I request that a feature be added to md5sum and sha1sum to get them to
print out their digests in base32 (0-9[a-vA-V]) format.

Thanks,
-- 
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-- Eric Hopper ([email protected]  http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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