[PATCH] libmd: Use alternative MD5 implementation

[Sebastian Huber]

On 12/17/2012 05:06 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/16/2012 06:09 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> This implementation has less license restrictions.
>
> The issue with md5 is not licenses, it's security and portability.
>
> That said, your proposal to me qualifies as replacing a widely used and heavily
> tested version with one from the zoo of exotic versions that are floating around.
>
> That said, unless you can provide evidence of the version you are proposing has
> a history of being used for many years in major OSes or applications, I am very
> opposed to letting this code in.

This is not a random selection.  This code is used in PHP 5.3.0+ for example. 
I added also the RFC 2202 test cases as test libtests/md501.  Feel free to 
improve this test.

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