[mythtv-users] MythTV AirPlay noob

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 22:53:44 UTC 2012


Hi

On Monday, 25 June 2012, Steven Ihde wrote:

>
>
> The AirTunes wiki gives bad advice to verify the key with "sha1sum
> privkey.txt".  The text representation can vary greatly in ways that affect
> the SHA1 digest of the text file but do not affect the underlying key (e.g.
> extra spaces at the end of the line, DOS-vs-Unix linefeeds, and various
> ASN1 encoding issues).
>
> A much better way is to verify the SHA1 digest of the DER encoding of the
> key:
>
> $ openssl rsa -in privkey.txt -outform der | sha1sum
> writing RSA key
> 7a07afcdf4cbb5653318a329906afe5367cb8b13  -
>
>
Hence why it's a wiki and is designed in a way so that user can update it
accordingly

Why don't you update the wiki instead?
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