[PATCH 00/15] Synchronize libcrypt and libmd with FreeBSD

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Thu Sep 8 22:17:40 UTC 2022


On 9/9/2022 12:29 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 08/09/2022 16:27, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 9:26 AM Sebastian Huber
>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 08/09/2022 16:21, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>      > Were there no updates to md4/md5 code in libmd? git blame shows
>>     md4.c as
>>      > having mostly no updates in 15 years.
>>
>>     These hashes are obsolete for cryptographic purposes.
>>
>>
>> But they are good checksums. And we have the code. What's the upstream for it?
> 
> I don't have time to do this right now.

I cannot see any documentation in the classic API guide on what we provide, what
we maintain and what users should use. Should we have a crypto section to help
explain these things?

Chris


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