MD5 obsolite - Whats next?

Jerry Lundström prox at lunar-linux.org
Fri Aug 20 14:16:05 GMT 2004


Terry Chan wrote:
> Why a static binary ?  

Because it should work without openssl installed and stuff like that.

> Do you mean to write/reproduce all the other crypto devs work by making
> a binary to calculate all those various types of checksums (sha1, gpg, md5) ?

I mean we make a static tool insteed of having openssl and gpg required 
modules to have the source verification working.

If there already exist a program that can handle the enc's we need and 
want that all good.


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