nickva commented on issue #1445: Make MD5 hash implementation configurable - issue #1171 URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/1445#issuecomment-405335727 From what I understand it is to allow using CouchDB when FIPS mode is enabled. In that case computing md5 via OpenSSL (`crypto:hash(md5, ...)`) fails. The other alternative is to switch CouchDB to use a different hash function, but that is a bigger change, so I suggested just using Erlang's built-in md5 for now as an option. There was some discussion here about it: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1171
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