Re: rat license.
Joseph Carter writes:
> This may be a problem as RSA's implementation of MD5 has no license.
> There are versions which do however (one included with samba IIRC, I
> believe it's GPL'd. You'll need one that's BSD'd) or you can write
> your own md5 code which replaces RSA's following the RFC - the
> reference code in the RFC is RSA's though, so you have to go by the
> text of the RFC if you do that.
How about the md5 code in dpkg (and elsewhere)?
/*
* This code implements the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
* The algorithm is due to Ron Rivest. This code was
* written by Colin Plumb in 1993, no copyright is claimed.
* This code is in the public domain; do with it what you wish.
*
* Equivalent code is available from RSA Data Security, Inc.
* This code has been tested against that, and is equivalent,
* except that you don't need to include two pages of legalese
* with every copy.
*
* To compute the message digest of a chunk of bytes, declare an
* MD5Context structure, pass it to MD5Init, call MD5Update as
* needed on buffers full of bytes, and then call MD5Final, which
* will fill a supplied 16-byte array with the digest.
*
* Changed so as no longer to depend on Colin Plumb's `usual.h' header
* definitions; now uses stuff from dpkg's config.h.
* - Ian Jackson <ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu>.
* Still in the public domain.
*/
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