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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-05 20:09:23 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-03-05 20:09:23 +0000
commit9e8a79a11a25843a5b1f887e9dea08593a7f1886 (patch)
tree3ea2881ff918d06e503425cb50844403f1f8762a /usr.bin/cksum
parent5f11dae5029c2844c96130eb16d99769ea137c83 (diff)
Various improvements, including a few HISTORY sections added from FreeBSD.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/cksum')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/cksum/cksum.130
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/cksum/cksum.1 b/usr.bin/cksum/cksum.1
index 8e0062666b4..71fe39d2f5a 100644
--- a/usr.bin/cksum/cksum.1
+++ b/usr.bin/cksum/cksum.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: cksum.1,v 1.10 1999/07/21 01:25:42 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: cksum.1,v 1.11 2000/03/05 20:09:20 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: cksum.1,v 1.8 1995/09/02 05:45:15 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
.Op Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm
+.Nm cksum
utility writes to the standard output three whitespace separated
fields for each input file.
These fields are a checksum
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ is written.
The
.Nm sum
utility is identical to the
-.Nm
+.Nm cksum
utility, except that it defaults to using historic algorithm 1, as
described below.
It is provided for compatibility only.
@@ -154,18 +154,19 @@ The bit sequence is complemented and the result is the CRC.
.Ed
.Pp
The
-.Nm
+.Nm cksum
and
.Nm sum
utilities exit 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
.Sh WARNING
Do not use
-.Nm sum
+.Nm cksum
or
-.Nm
-to detect hostile binary modifications. An attacker
-can trivially produce backdoored daemons which have the same CRC as the
-standard versions. Use a cryptographic checksum (such as MD5) instead.
+.Nm sum
+to detect hostile binary modifications.
+An attacker can trivially produce backdoored daemons which have the same
+CRC as the standard versions.
+Use a cryptographic checksum (such as MD5) instead.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr md5 1 ,
.Xr rmd160 1 ,
@@ -183,19 +184,12 @@ article.
.Re
.Sh STANDARDS
The
-.Nm
+.Nm cksum
utility is compliant with the
.St -p1003.2-92
specification.
.Sh HISTORY
The
-.Nm
+.Nm cksum
utility appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
-.\" .Pp
-.\" The
-.\" .Nm sum
-.\" utility appeared in
-.\" .Bx ?.?
-.\" and
-.\" .At V .