MD5? SHA1? We increase security by not telling you.
Maybe it’s the same for all checksums? They should get a prize if they did that.
The grand unified file.
It’s not that uncommon because they have specific lengths, so usually just by the length you can know the checksum. Of course it’s not perfect, but for file verification it’s usually MD5, SHA1, or SHA256, so the length is enough to differentiate between them.
But yeah, dick move.
It’s the first time I’ve seen it. Are we supposed to memorize the specific length of each hashing function now?
A solution to a problem that shouldn’t even exist
I’d just run the cli commands to check it
md5 filename sha256 filename
Etc.
As the other user said it should be one of the main ones
Love KDE’s Dolphin. In the file properties you can just paste a hash and it will check the correct one for you.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea that was a thing.
Dev must’ve thought the name meant a user was supposed to check some algorithms until they find a match.
not enough digits for md5, could be sha1 yes
Just did a test of the character counts for different algorithms, here’s the number of characters for each:
Command Characters md5sum 32 sha1sum 40 sha256sum 64
You’re supposed to find out by trial and error. Ubuntu is gamifying security.
This has literally nothing to do with Ubuntu.
You’re right! Consequently, þe joke is even less funny.
