[SLOF] [PATCH 4/4] Add testprograms

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 08/07/2021 01:23, Stefan Berger wrote:
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> On 7/7/21 3:47 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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>> On 07/07/2021 07:32, Stefan Berger wrote:
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>>> On 7/1/21 12:11 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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>>>> On 30/06/2021 22:26, Stefan Berger wrote:
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>>>>> On 6/29/21 11:10 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>>>> What does this actually test? It runs sha384/etc but it is not 
>>>>>> comparing the outcome with known good values or anything like this.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I visually compared the results against the expected results from 
>>>>> test vectors or results from  command line output of echo -n "..." 
>>>>> | sha512sum for example.
>>>>
>>>> if would make more sense if you hardcoded those outputs to the test 
>>>> and compared, then the next reader won't have questions and will 
>>>> know exactly what it tests.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So you really want to keep these test cases then? If so, can we use 
>>> glib to make tings a bit easier for invoking external programs and 
>>> getting results back?
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>> I want to replace printing the hashes in main() with memcmp() to what 
>> external program would produce for the same sequence. I definitely do 
>> not want neither new external programs to run from the test nor glib 
>> in SLOF.
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> 
> So we can hard code expected results or link with OpenSSL's -lcrypto and 
> call the hash functions from there to compare the result. This would be 
> possible to do since the hash functions from -lcrypto are in capital 
> letters while the ones in SLOF are lower case. But my guess it you 
> wouldn't want to link with -lcrypto in SLOF either. So hard coding 
> expected results is the way to go then ?

Yes, hardcoding is the way imho. Thanks,


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Alexey