From: Philippe Chotard <chobolt@...>
Date: 2009-03-05T21:22:30+09:00
Subject: Re: openssl and SHA*

Brian Candler wrote:
> But in any case, reading 512MB of data into RAM just to calculate SHA1 
> is very wasteful. I suggest you recode it:
> 
>   puts Digest::SHA1.file("my_file").hexdigest

Thanks for your response Brian.
Indeed, using this method I got the right hash. So it looks like as you 
said, that the problem is appearing when sha is handling 512MB+ strings.

I'll do some further testing on other systems and versions (Using ruby 
1.9.0 on a debian lenny)

Thanks !
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