This post shows you how to incorporate hash functions built into the AT&T Advanced Software Technologies (AST) libsum library in your Korn shell shell scripts via custom builtins in a dynamically loadable plugin.
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This post describes GRUB2 modules and shows you how to add functionality to existing modules or write you own custom module. This post demonstrates how to access hard disk metadata such as disk geometry, capacility, manufacturer, serial number, firmware revision, rotational speed, and partiitioning information using libparted and various ioctls and output the metadata in a number of formats. This post examines what support is provided by OpenSSL v1.0 for the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and provides simple examples of how to used the provided application programming interfaces. A brief overview of DES and the algorithmic implementation of DES known as Data Encryption Algorithm (DEA) is also provided. UEFI is a follow on to the original EFI specification developed by Intel in the late 1990s. Until recently, UEFI was restricted to high-end servers but is now becoming more commonplace on commodity servers and desktops. Fedora 12 can be booted using UEFI. In this post, I describe how to access and list the UEFI globally defined variables that Fedora 12 is aware of. |
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