Some notes re coreutils and ssh sha256sum uses 128KiB blocks when reading, which may be more optimized than the openssl program. sha256sum supports using open

Some notes re coreutils and ssh sha256sum uses 128KiB blocks when reading, which may be more optimized than the openssl program. sha256sum supports using openssl libs as they are generally faster. This is enabled on Red Hat flavored distros and arch, but not debian flavored as yet The upcoming release of sha256sum (8.32) will auto enable use of openssl for >= v 3, as openssl's licence has changed to apache in that version