slight irritation using digest (from the ports)

[Wesley Shields]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:28:10AM +0200, Christian Baer wrote:
> Hello Folks!
> 
> For a special application I needed to create digests (or hashes) using
> the whirlpool algorithem. It was kind of hard to find something that
> actually did that. But I found digest in the ports tree - ok, with some
> help from someone who seemed to know what to look for. :-)
> 
> What irritates me is the Wikipedia-page on Whirlpool:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%28algorithm%29
> 
> There is a chance that the author of the article messed up somehow but
> when you are handling sensitive stuff, chances aren't really the things
> you want to take.
> 
> My irritations in detail:
> 
> My zero-hash is the same as the example shown for whirlpool
> (whirlpool-2). That's a good sign so far.
> 
> My hash for "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is: 
> 72687676756b91ad986f2e56df761b354b748bc20098354b017b924e82cc67ae
> 059da85f009d1a17c0f12ec0e644c0c3a193f3fc0fee22f053edbfcd95cbf873
> And that is nowhere near the examples shown in the article. The same
> basic thing applies for the change of "dog" to "eog". My hashes are
> completely different - as in "no chance the hashes were transfered by
> typing and a typo snuck in". I've tried changing the first letter to a
> small 't' in case the author didn't hash the sentence with a capital,
> but that didn't resolve the problem, nor did adding a full stop. I even
> added the quotes to the string that whirlpool digested - didn't change
> anything. I know I could try changing the input until kingdom come
> without finding the error, so I left it at that.

I think this illustrates what you're seeing...

wxs at rst wxs > echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" > foo
wxs at rst wxs > digest whirlpool foo                                             
WHIRLPOOL (foo) =
72687676756b91ad986f2e56df761b354b748bc20098354b017b924e82cc67ae059da85f009d1a17c0f12ec0e644c0c3a193f3fc0fee22f053edbfcd95cbf873
wxs at rst wxs > echo -n "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" >
wxs at rst wxs > digest whirlpool foo                                             
WHIRLPOOL (foo) =
b97de512e91e3828b40d2b0fdce9ceb3c4a71f9bea8d88e75c4fa854df36725fd2b52eb6544edcacd6f8beddfea403cb55ae31f03ad62a5ef54e42ee82c3fb35
wxs at rst wxs > 

It was including the trailing newline character in your example.

-- WXS