Re: [boost] boost md5 implementation?

From: Walter Landry (wlandry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-09 12:36:41

Jody Hagins <jody-boost-011304_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:52:18 +0100
> Martin Wille <mw8329_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> 
> I worked on an independent implementation a while back, for my own use. 
> If there is interest, I can find the code and toss it in the vault.

It might be preferable to just use Botan

  http://botan.randombit.net/

It has a number of crypto algorithms, and optimizing these things is
quite hard.  However, I don't know that the author would be interested
in being assimilated by the boost collective.

Cheers,
Walter