1.09 released (Re: libfastmint update 20040916)

Adam Back <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.hashcash
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I uploaded source and binaries for 1.09 with the cumulative patch for
the last 3 patches from Jonathan applied, plus a output bugfix that
Panta reported.

Unfortunately I don't have access to my windows machine at present to
build the windows version of this.  If anyone has mingw installed and
pgp, they could build a 1.09 exe and make signed zip and exe options
as in http://www.hashcash.org/binaries/win32/ (but with 1.09 instead
of 1.08)

Adam

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:48:44PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
> Good timing.  I was just about to apply the previous cumulative patch,
> and will do this one instead.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:38:57PM +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> > >Yes I thought about this one also.  However the downside is one can no
> > >longer easily verifying a stamp in script languages using the sha1sum
> > >utility.  One first would have to undeo the padding compression.
> > 
> > Indeed.  This would add complexity which isn't strictly necessary.  
> > Yes, the leading zeroes can look untidy, but few users will regularly 
> > see this in their MUA.
> > 
> > While we're on the subject, I fixed the bug that made the count field 
> > overlap the random field for certain resource lengths.  The revised 
> > patch, against 1.08 once more, is attached - it simply makes sure the 
> > count field is at least 8 bytes long.
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