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#5 Use OpenSSL's md5 instead of rolling your own

open-wont-fix
nobody
None
5
2012-01-28
2012-01-27
Mikhail T.
No

A lot of projects re-implement MD5 functionality instead of simply using the universally-available OpenSSL code (which may even be assemlber-optimized on some platforms). The patch below fixes this problem in udt.

Once committed, md5.cpp and md5.h can be removed from Makefile and from the repository.

Discussion

  • Mikhail T.

    Mikhail T. - 2012-01-27

    Use OpenSSL's md5-implementation

     
  • Yunhong Gu

    Yunhong Gu - 2012-01-28

    Using source code for MD5 instead of using OpenSSL lib is intentional, because openssl is often not installed by default. This is especially a problem for Windows and mobile platforms.

     
  • Yunhong Gu

    Yunhong Gu - 2012-01-28
    • status: open --> open-wont-fix
     

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