As a fan of GnuPG ...

[charlie derr]

On 6/18/20 9:33 AM, Stefan Claas wrote:
> ... you should try this out in your terminal and look at the beginning
> of the output:
> 
> $ echo 1fccaf3d | xxd -r -p | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl enc
> -base64
> 
> :-)
> 
> P.S. A friend of mine came up with a shell script to do this.
> 
> Regards
> Stefan
> 

Is getting those first 5 characters into the output of this string
really that amazing? Or am i missing something significant about what
the rest of the seemingly random characters represent?

spoiler, my output was:

GnuPGCfA8srqYMiMWAFrWTvP0n0pbfSGRdUIA7kv/1U=

   somewhat confused,
        ~c



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