Great!

On 2009-07-18 05:16:26 -0300, Stéphane Ducasse 
<[email protected]> said:

> Yes this is a good idea.
> 
> Stef
> 
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Lienhard wrote:
> 
>> Bill, please note that Esteban just needs a standard hash algorithm.
>> No encryption.
>> 
>> Some time ago we discussed including hash functions from Cryptography
>> in Pharo core. We postponed it then because it seemed that maybe some
>> people would join and make Cryptography work in Pharo. An OpenSSL
>> interface would be a very interesting alternative too.
>> 
>> In any case I think we should add MD5 and maybe some other hash
>> functions to the core. Will add this to my todo list.
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 18, 2009, at 05:09 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
>> 
>>> Esteban,
>>> 
>>> IMHO, the correct path is to write an interface for OpenSSL.
>>> Ultimately, that should also give us SSL sockets, but long before
>>> that, it can provide various hashes and cyphers with very little
>>> effort.  I am open on whether the interface should be FFI, Alien, or
>>> plugin based.  One argument for a plugin could come through benefits
>>> that _might_ acrue to sockets.  I have along way to go on Squeak/
>>> Pharo external interfacing, so I could be way off here(!!), but I am
>>> under the impression that plugins can use OS threads, and that could
>>> greatly simplify getting OpenSSL to not hang the entire image while
>>> waiting on things to happen to/on a socket; that benefit would come
>>> at the cost of having to write a plugin.
>>> 
>>> Another option might be to use FFI/Alien to access the cyphers and
>>> have a plugin for the SSL sockets.  Hopefully someone with Squeak
>>> external interfacing experience will tell us "where be the dragons"
>>> with the various options.
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: 
>>> [email protected] 
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] 
>>> 
>>> On Behalf Of Esteban Lorenzano
>>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:25 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Pharo-project] MD5 in pharo?
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> Some time ago, I read a thread about cryotography, and as far as I
>>> remember, some body says about integrate the basic algoritms (MD5
>>> and maybe others) as part of the pharo core.
>>> Well... now I need to use MD5 and cryptography package is not
>>> working well (it opens a debugger each time I save my image).
>>> 
>>> I wonder if there are another package with MD5?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Esteban
>>> 
>>> 
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