[flashrom] [PATCH] add calculating and printing of MD5 hashes of flash and file contents

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:02:44 +0200
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> The MD5 hashes of the files and flash contents are computed and printed whenever a file
> or a whole flash device is read. This can be disabled by setting CONFIG_MD5 to no in the
> makefile.
> It uses a simple self-contained MD5 "library" with a permissive license in md5.[hc].
> Its author is added to the (new) acknowledgments section in the manpage.
> 

because there seem to be a bit of misunderstanding on the purpose of
printing md5 hashes: this should not help you when you are using
flashrom correctly (md5sum et al. are fine) but the poor souls (and the
ones helping fixing them stuff i.e. you) when they have misused
flashrom in one or another way. this allows us to verify for every log
we receive which file has been used (together with the upcoming log
file patch) without costing much when dealing with untrustworthy third
parties (== euphemism :).

size of flashrom with md5 (and libftdi linked):
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 309905	   1412	   9960	 321277	  4e6fd	flashrom

without the patch at all:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 306613	   1412	   9960	 317985	  4da21	flashrom

i.e. ~1% of text size.

the patch does integrate well and obviously i am pro using it, but i am
not insisting on this at all if the majority objects it. i just thought
it is a good idea and gave it a try :)
-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner