[ILUG] hashing algorithm

[John P . Looney]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:50AM +0100, Smelly Pooh mentioned:
> I'm afraid openSSL's name is a bit misleading, yes it's best known for SSL
> (obviously) but it's also a crypto library (hence a man crypto separate from
> the man ssl) and to confuse things even more, hash algorithms are listed
> by themselves in their crypto man page.  To clarify, openSSL doesn't only do
> SSL, programs like SSH and openPGP uses its crypto functions.  Taken from
> their crypto man page, hash algorithms they provide are
> 
> AUTHENTICATION CODES, HASH FUNCTIONS
> 
> hmac(3), md2(3), md4(3), md5(3), mdc2(3), ripemd(3), sha(3) 

 That's really annoying. I was wondering why there wasn't a libmd or
something on linux. They should tell us these things ;)

 Or at least have a md5.h file or something to let us know it's there!

Kate, one of those goons that wrote an md5 bit for an app because he
didn't know any better

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