Re: [boost] boost md5 implementation?

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-09 10:52:18

Nigel Stewart wrote:
> Greetings boost-land,
> 
> We've been looking around for an implementation of the
> MD5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5) hash algorithm
> and came across a boost-oriented implementation by
> Stanislav Baranov:
> 
> http://www.garret.ru/~baranov/boost_md5/lib/md5/md5.html
> 
> Does anyone know if this was ever formally reviewed for
> inclusion in boost, or if there are other proposals or
> plans for message digest algorithms as part of boost?

I don't recall any proposal for that. While I'd like to see support for 
MD5 and related algorithms in Boost, I don't think this implementation 
has an acceptable license (because of the RSA clause).

Regards,
m
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