Caleb Cushing's Blog Also known as XenoTerraCide
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Quick sha1sum with Crypto++

I’ve been working on Korama. I was originally planning on hashing each music file and using the sha1 for the track primary key. However, after benchmarking an actual implementation. I’ve decided that it’s too slow, 20 minutes for 3k+ tracks, also my program was about 5 minutes slower than find … -exec sha1sumnot sure on the reason why. However, since I had problems figuring out how to do it I figure I’ll post a basic sha1sum program that I made with the help of people on the Crypto++Mailing List.

To pointer, or not to pointer: That is the question

For a very long time now I’ve been looking for good explanations of pointers, and how the varying kinds differ.I’ve finally found a book that does a good job of explaining what they are and how they differ. The book is by Bjarne Stroustrup (the creator of C++) it’s called Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++. The book is supposed to teach you how to program (become a good programmer) using C++ not teach the C++ language.