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wpa_supplicant store password as hash (WPA-EAP with phase2=“auth=PAP”)

Is there a way to store my password in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as some hash instead of plaintext? By "password" I refer here to the password used for phase2 authentification. I do not ...
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How to create SHA512 password hashes on command line

In Linux I can create a SHA1 password hash using sha1pass mypassword. Is there a similar command line tool which lets me create sha512 hashes? Same question for Bcrypt and PBKDF2.
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RIPEMD-160 file digest

How can I make a file digest under Linux with the RIPEMD-160 hash function, from the command line?
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how can a makefile detect whether a command is available in the local machine?

I began to use org-mode for planning out my tasks in GTD-style system. Putting every org files in a directory of a Dropbox folder, I run emacs to edit / manage these files from three different local ...
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How to delete duplicates of files in directory and subdirs?

Is there any fast method to delete duplicates of files based on any hash sum (i.e. SHA1 to be fast). Because I've got some mess in my music files.
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Fastest hashing method under OpenWRT?

I frequently verify the file integrity on my OpenWrt router by hashing the files. I didn't want to use sha256sum, so I decided to use the faster md5sum. Is there anything even faster available?
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Running md5sum on a file's contents

md5suming a file is fine, but I cannot seem to invoke md5sum to calculate the hash based only on the file's contents. (For those wondering, I'd prefer that multiple wgets of the same file return the ...
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Rename files with random characters from sha1sum. Does it unique?

I'm using this command to rename files with random characters from sha1sum and move all files from subdirectories to current directory: for fname in `find . -type f`; do mv "$fname" $(echo "$fname" | ...
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How to pipe md5 hash result in shell

I am looking for a simple way to pipe the result of md5sum into another command. Something like this: $echo -n 'test' | md5sum | ... My problem is that md5sum outputs not only the hash of the ...
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Good “progress bar” about md5sum checking progress?

I'm using this right now: time md5sum -c *.txt | pv | grep -v ': OK$' but aren't there any smart solutions that can list that how many files haven't been checked? I mean I have many md5sum's in ...
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Replace all files with identical hash

I want to replace all files in a target path with the same name as original.file AND the same hash as orignal.file with new.file. What's the command to do this? Say I have updated the contents of a ...
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What methods are used to encrypt passwords in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow?

A careful examination of the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files reveal that the passwords stored are hashed using some form of hashing function. A quick Google search reveals that by default, the ...
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Calculate md5sum of a CD/DVD

I have an ISO file, which I burned to a CD. Now how can I check if the CD is correctly created? I would like a command that calculate the hash sum that I can use to check with the hash sum I calculate ...