Enhance sftp protocol: get SHA hash of file

Thomas Guettler guettli at thomas-guettler.de
Fri Jul 1 01:22:31 EST 2011


...
>> Rather than reinventing the wheel, you might take a look at the (expired) 
>> Draft which proposed the "check-file-name" and "check-file-handle" SFTP 
>> extensions:
>>
>>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-extensions-00
>>
>> These extensions have been implemented by various SFTP clients and 
>> servers.
> 
> Thank you very much! I googled for server which support
> check-file-hanlde, but I found only proftpd which supports it.
> 
> The ietf extension is even better than my first proposal: You can
> give a blocksize and get N hash values with one response.
> 
> I not a fluent c programmer. Any volunteers to implement this?

Hi,

I opened a "search for help" on openhatch:

http://openhatch.org/+projects/sftp%20get%20hash%20value

Maybe someone can help us ...

 Thomas


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