[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Re: SHA1 code in sha.c

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Scott McKellar <mck9 at swbell.net>:

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> --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org> wrote:
>> Why reinvent the wheel? Why not just
>> farm the work out to libcrypto? Last I checked OpenSSL
>> typically has a SHA1 implementation that you don't have to
>> fiddle with.
>>
>> Jason
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> I have no intention of reinventing any wheels.  I did a quick Google and
> saw the OpenSSL project among others.  What I don't know is how portable
> they are.  The ones I looked at so far don't say very much on their
> websites about architectures, int sizes, endianness, or other aspects of
> portability.  I'd rather not have to decipher a dozen different
> implementations of an algorithm I don't understand in order to figure
> out which ones are better than what we've got.

OpenSSL is about as portable as you can get, and is pretty much  
guaranteed to be installed on any machine that can host OpenILS.


>
> If anybody already knows of a suitable implementation, or knows of one
> that we should avoid, you may be able to save me some time.
>
> Scott McKellar
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