Re: Bug#555944: ITP: fast-md5 -- fast implementation of the MD5 algorithm written in Java

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:42:17AM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> * Package name    : fast-md5

MD5 is broken. Why do you start with a package that supports exactly
this one hash?

> * URL             : http://www.twmacinta.com/myjava/fast_md5.php

The supplied tarball includes binaries, are you handling this properly?

>  fast-md5 is faster than the build-in MD5 support in java standard toolkit.

What about contributing this back to the different implementations?
There is no standard one.

Bastian

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