Re: Recursion
mabzug1@gl.umbc.edu
Tue, 9 Jan 1996 16:12:37 -0500 (EST)
"DE" == David Eagles spake thusly:
DE>
DE> Seems to me like there are quite a few people using CRC-like methods to =
[snip]
DE> Now the tricky part - everyone will have they're own technique/algorithm =
DE> for this so what will the standard be? Does anyone have a particularly =
DE> good algorithm they would care to make available. It should produce a =
[snip]
DE> simple, but of course suggestions would be welcomed (I won't suggest =
DE> using a crypto key generation algorithm, even though I'd like to).
Might I suggest the standard 'message digest' algorithm, md5, described in
rfc1321? An md5 header line is even (officially) part of HTTP, although I
haven't seen too many servers that return it. . . yet. There's a standard C
implementation, and Neil Winton even put together a Perl implementation. See
<http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/md5/md5.html> for (marginally) more
information.
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