duplicate functionality in libmd and libcrypt

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Mon Dec 8 07:05:08 UTC 2014


The libmd and libcrypt are copies from FreeBSD so we should keep this 
stuff as it is.

We should somehow document that some files are copies from other 
projects.  The simplest thing would be to add a README file to these 
directories.

On 06/12/14 15:54, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Looks like I wrote carelessly. I see different now. libcrypt supports
> the "crypt" commands while libmd provides some cryptographic hash
> functions. The file names led me to believe there was some overlap.
> README might be nice in those subdirectories.
>
> On this topic, libmd should be renamed now that it contains
> cryptographic hash functions other than md4 and md5.
>
> And does crypt deserve its own subdirectory, or should it more
> appropriately go under libcsupport?

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