Re: Digest::, Event & File::

[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:12:51 +0200 (EET)

Newsgroups	perl.sdk
Organization	IKI ry, Finland
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 > Digest::*
 > 
 >         This means Digest::MD5 to most folks although it also includes
 >         MD2 & SHA1 and was, until recently, considered munitions by
 >         the US government (fortunately that's no longer the case).

As far as I know, bollocks.  And that's not a commentary on the old
munition policy in general :-) but instead specific disbelief
concerning the MD2 and SHA1.  They are, as far as I know, hash
functions/checksums (just like MD5), and again, AFAIK, there has never
been any export limits on those.  Encryption ne Chekcsumming.

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