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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: MD5 Algorithm?
Date: 1998/12/01
Date: 1998-12-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1998Dec1.075547.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 740eq1$75i$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk

In article <740eq1$75i$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) writes:
> v025@academic.truman.edu (Chad R. Meiners) writes:
> |> I was wondering if anyone has written(or has) a MD5 package and would be 
> |> willing give it to me.
> 
> MD5 is a bit out-dated as a secure hash function and has been superseeded
> by the ISO and NIST standardized SHA-1 algorithm.

MD5 has not been superceded if a standard you are implementing requires MD5.

> by the ISO and NIST standardized SHA-1 algorithm. A free Ada implementation
> of SHA-1 by Mike Roe is available on
> 
>   http://www.ccsr.cam.ac.uk/projects/aes/
> 
> together with many other Ada crypto algorithms.

I think the use of the term "free" is a bit overblown here, as for
commercial purposes the answer seems to be "our lawyers will call",
followed by no further contact.

Larry Kilgallen




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-30  0:00 MD5 Algorithm? Chad R. Meiners
1998-12-01  0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-12-01  0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-12-01  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
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