I only talked about incorporating hash functions like MD5. AFAIK these are no problem.
Adrian On Jul 18, 2009, at 15:10 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > Stef, > > What about import/export restrictions? I prefer to leave to other > forums the debate on whether or not goverments (especially mine) has > any business at all restricting such things. However, they do > restrict them, and we might do better to steer clear of > cryptography, or at least make it separately downloadable. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected] > ] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] MD5 in pharo? > > 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 M5 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] >>> [mailto:[email protected] >>> ] 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
