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Hashdeep

Looks like 'hashdeep' is now also given out with md5deep. Should it be mentioned here or get a new page? Tabitha.able (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Is it a notable software? `a5b (talk) 22:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hardly. This task can be easily done with either | (pipe) of find from findutils + any hashing program you want or any other generic file list processor, like those present in almost any GUI and console-mode file manager. Because of that, I also doubt this article should have link from MD5 page either. --Rowaa[SR13] (talk) 12:47, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By that notion, nearly every *nix application isn't notable because most can be done by piping appropriate commands on the command line. Md5deep was the first program to automatically perform its functions, and is a standard in many IA and computer forensics fields. That, of course, being from my own observation. Rurik (talk) 15:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do believe it was first (if it was at all) because nobody ever needed to make this a separate program. I, for example, just click Ctrl-G on list of files in FAR Manager for years already select md5sum from list and don't even think about having separate program to replace 2-5 keystrokes. Win32 users may simple use built-in file find functionality and drag-n-drop results to any visual checksum program that supports it. Yes, by this notation many *nix programs are not notable as well, but I don't really care in a sense that I have nothing against description of this program here in Wikipedia, but I would really hate to see it claim to be first to offer function that is for years already used in many other programs, just in a more general form. --Rowaa[SR13] (talk) 17:07, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Even referenced discussion at Debian tracker mentions how completely trivial this piece of software is. Can I, in similar vein, spend this evening creating binaries for calculating 1+1, 2+2, etc. up to 1000 and then add new 1000 glorious pages to Wikipedia describing every of those "programs" I've created? I assume every of those 1000 would be "the first program to automatically perform its functions" as well. --Rowaa[SR13] (talk) 17:16, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Public Domain" isn't a license. KMeyer (talk) 01:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Application

A subject matter expert should write a small section in the article explaining why this is a tool that is needed. Under what circumstances would it be of value to have an MD5sum of every file in a filesystem? Twredfish (talk) 18:23, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::By that notion, nearly every *nix application isn't notable because most can be done by piping appropriate commands on the command line.  Md5deep was the first program to automatically perform its functions, and is a standard in many [[Information Assurance|IA]] and [[computer forensics]] fields. That, of course, being from my own observation. [[User:Rurik|Rurik]] ([[User talk:Rurik|talk]]) 15:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 :::I do believe it was first (if it was at all) because nobody ever needed to make this a separate program. I, for example, just click Ctrl-G on list of files in [[FAR Manager]] for years already select md5sum from list and don't even think about having separate program to replace 2-5 keystrokes. Win32 users may simple use built-in file find functionality and drag-n-drop results to any visual checksum program that supports it. Yes, by this notation many *nix programs are not notable as well, but I don't really care in a sense that I have nothing against description of this program here in Wikipedia, but I would really hate to see it claim to be first to offer function that is for years already used in many other programs, just in a more general form. --[[User:Rowaasr13|Rowaa&#91;SR13&#93;]] ([[User talk:Rowaasr13|talk]]) 17:07, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
+:::Even referenced discussion at Debian tracker mentions how completely trivial this piece of software is. Can I, in similar vein, spend this evening creating binaries for calculating 1+1, 2+2, etc. up to 1000 and then add new 1000 glorious pages to Wikipedia describing every of those "programs" I've created? I assume every of those 1000 would be "the first program to automatically perform its functions" as well. --[[User:Rowaasr13|Rowaa&#91;SR13&#93;]] ([[User talk:Rowaasr13|talk]]) 17:16, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 "Public Domain" isn't a license. [[User:KMeyer|KMeyer]] ([[User talk:KMeyer|talk]]) 01:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)