I wrote a data extraction utility which uses PolarSSL to export a Base64-encoded SHA-1 digest of some internal metadata (a string of JSON-formatted data), to help validate archive integrity: $ unstarch –sha1-signature .foo 7HkOxDUBJd2rU/CQ/zigR84MPTc= So far, so good. But now I want to validate that the metadata are being digested correctly through some independent means, […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Selecting a new gcc version installed via MacPorts
MacPorts is useful for installing a variety of command-line utilities and programs for Mac OS X. There are others, e.g. Homebrew. After using MacPorts to update a GNU gcc installation, it is useful to select the new revision. Tips were posted to this Stack Overflow thread. Basically, it boils down to two steps: sudo port […]