Re: Bundled md5 in OCaml

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On St, 2013-11-20 at 20:33 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> See:
> https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/byterun/md5.c#L78
> 
> (1) In terms of the bundled(md5-$IMPLEMENTATION), which
> $IMPLEMENTATION is this?

It is bundled(md5-plumb)

> (2) Ideally I would like to replace this with a call to a library (in
> Fedora, I don't think this would be accepted upstream).  But which
> library should I use?

I'd probably use libgcrypt. However if the MD5 is not used for security
related purpose, which it should not be used for due to its brokenness
anyway, I am not sure it is worth it to replace the bundled copy with a
library call.

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Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb
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