I like to have just sha256 sums PTB in bottom of my articles and emails.

So I modified the script:

getlatestptb-1.1.pl

And I'm sending the simple diff, or patch if used, to the list.

Here it is. Cut out the entire spacer lines containing only "====", and that
payload in btwn is the patch to apply:
=============================================
11a12,14
> # minor modification, to get only sha256, and not random hash, in the two-liner
> # publictimestamp to append by miro.rovis@croatiafidelis.hr
> #
58c61
< my @hash_names = ( "sha512", "whirlpool", "ripemd128", "ripemd160", "haval", "tiger", "sha384", "sha256", "sha160", "sha224", "tiger128", "tiger160", "tiger2", "whirlpool0", "whirlpool2", "ripemd256", "ripemd320");
---
> my @hash_names = ( "sha256");
=============================================
So it can be saved as getlatestptb-1.1_miroR.pl.patch, and applied on the
original file like this:

$ patch getlatestptb-1.1.pl -p1 < getlatestptb-1.1_miroR.pl.patch

Now, since the original file is changed it should be renamed. I renamed it like
this:

$ mv -iv getlatestptb-1.1.pl getlatestptb-1.1_miroR.pl

and that's what I'll be using.

You can also find my PGP signed modified script on:
http://www.croatiafidelis.hr/gnu/pts/

Conversely, if someone wants to, say, verify the original script via
intermediary of my script, they could download my modified script and the
patch, and the sigs for both and first verify them, and then to via
intermediary verify the original script that they previously downloaded from
sourceforge, they could do:

$ patch getlatestptb-1.1_miroR.pl -R -p1 < getlatestptb-1.1_miroR.pl.patch
$ mv -vi getlatestptb-1.1_miroR.pl getlatestptb-1.1_BIS.pl

Now the:

$ diff getlatestptb-1.1.pl getlatestptb-1.1_BIS.pl
$

must return no output. Else some of the files somewhere has been compromised.

I'm really not a developer, this is my best on this. I guess, however, that
what I explained above could prove necessary for newbies who might find out
about this list.

I like Public Time Stamp. I noticed it way back when it was pointed to me from,
I guess http://www.jonelo.de/java/jacksum/ , which is soon to be
www.jacksum.net, back when jacksum.jar was used for calculating hashes for PTS.
Only back then I didn't understand enough.

Jan O. Kechel, I appreciate your efforts. I'll send this to the
publictimestamp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and also to your own address, and
also I'll keep it at:
http://www.croatiafidelis.hr/gnu/pts/
after I publictimestamp it.

I don't get it how this list is infrequent to this extent. It could be some
sabotage from some part (hopothesis, pls. take note: only hopothesis).

But I like to track my own moves on the internet to support good causes like
this one, pls. see how I screencast my way on the net, and pcap-dump at the
same time:
http://www.croatiafidelis.hr/gnu/Flowstamp/

If I don't receive any feedback from you, then those who read this file, which
I will name:
Pts-dev_getlatestpts_miroR_140802.txt
will have no follow-up of the name Pts-dev_getlatestpts_miroR_140NNN.txt (NNN
depends on the month and date of the future conversation), and of course, in
that case the hypothesis above becomes a more likely possibility of what may
will have happened.

Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

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