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
> >
> >
> >
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