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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:24:23 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: add MD5Chunk(filename, .., offset, length) to libmd
Message-ID:  <20010316142423.A1278@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <16607.984777985@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:26:25PM %2B0100
References:  <20010316131523.B99286@mollari.cthul.hu> <16607.984777985@critter>

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:26:25PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20010316131523.B99286@mollari.cthul.hu>, Kris Kennaway writes:
> >
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> >On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:08:33PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> >
> >> Attached is a patch to libmd, which adds an MD5Check() function,
> >
> >I'd appreciate it if you could provide a patch against libcrypto as
> >well: libmd is a subset of what libcrypto provides (looks like libmd
> >was actually taken from the OpenSSL code in fact), 
> 
> EXCUSE ME!!!!
> 
> I created libmd in july 1994, well before anybody had even heard
> about much less implemented any kind of SSL...  (Exactly the kind
> of innovative behaviour we don't do here in FreeBSD according to
> Jordan.)
> 
> In all likelyhood OpenSSL nicked our libmd...

The SHA1 and RIPEMD-160 code is taken from OpenSSL.

The MD5 header is copyright RSA Data Security Inc (and contains
annoying s/_// differences between the OpenSSL version).

I'm not claiming you didn't write at least some of that code, but
libmd as it stands today clearly has a large amount in common with
OpenSSL.

Kris

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