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Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] Exchange of MD5 implementation due to license


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] Exchange of MD5 implementation due to license
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:01:26 +0000

markus schnalke wrote:
>Attached is a patch which exchanges the reference code with the public
>domain implementation of the RFC by Solar Designer of the Openwall
>project [1].

I'm not sure there's much point replacing one MD5 function with
a theoretically questionable license with another one which also
has a theoretically questionable license. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293932#85
and responses and note that "public domain" is a rather US
specific idea.

-- PMM



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