[BusyBox] bug in md5sum - 1.00-rc2 on ARM

[Adam Slattery]

actually, this may be good to avoid hardcoded backdoors. Just a thought,
not sure if that was the intention or if the algorithm implementation just
isn't portable (i haven't looked). Always look at the "feature" side of
things =).

- adam

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Josh Malone wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> It appears that md5sum is broken for 1.00-rc2 on arm.  It always reports
> all zeros for the md5.
> 
> adsdebian:~# ./md5sum /bin/busybox 
> 00000000000000000000000000000000  /bin/busybox
> 
> 
> I'm compiling under Debian-arm using gcc3.3.4
> 
> adsdebian:~/sources/busybox-1.00-rc2# gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/3.3.4/specs
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v
> --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,treelang --prefix=/usr
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
> --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared
> --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext
> --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug
> --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc arm-linux
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-2)
> 
> 
> I'm sorry I can't pinpoint the bug a little better.  If more info would
> help I can supply it.  Thanks.
> 
> -Josh
> 
> 
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> 
> Joshua Malone                            Linux Engineer
> Applied Data Systems                www.applieddata.net
> 434-244-9504                    jmalone at applieddata.net
> 
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