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cksum: Detect algorithm/digest size mismatch #6614

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RenjiSann opened this issue Aug 3, 2024 · 0 comments
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cksum: Detect algorithm/digest size mismatch #6614

RenjiSann opened this issue Aug 3, 2024 · 0 comments

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While working on a workaround for #6572 , I realized that the way we guess the number of bits for BLAKE2b (when it differs from standard 512) is wrong.

Indeed, for this, it seems to look at the size given in the algorithm name, while we are looking guessing it from the size of the digest.

See the following example :

$ echo -n 'foo' > foo.dat

$ cksum --algo=blake2b --length=48 --base64 foo.dat | tee foo.sums    
BLAKE2b-48 (foo.dat) = Fxzf34Tt

For now, cksum still works

$ cksum --check foo.sums
foo.dat: OK

We remove '-48' from the algo name

$ sed -i 's/-48//' foo.sums && cat foo.sums
BLAKE2b (foo.dat) = Fxzf34Tt

Now both implementation fail but for different reasons

$ cksum --check foo.sums                   
cksum: foo.sums: no properly formatted checksum lines found

$ ../target/debug/cksum --check foo.sums
foo.dat: FAILED
../target/debug/cksum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
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