On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Adrian Lienhard <[email protected]> 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. I think tihs can be easy as perhaps the only thing you must do is to copy the MD5 class to the core. I think it has no dependencies...But I should check that > > > 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 >
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