Alternative to OpenSSL for md5

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Alternative to OpenSSL for md5

chuckatkins opened this issue 4 years ago · 2 comments

Currently you're using the libcrypto from OpenSSL for MD5 hashing of files when computing checksums. Since the only use of OpenSSL is for MD5, it's a pretty heavyweight dependency for just that. Would you be open to a PR that brought in a different MD5 implementation in order to reduce the dependency footprint?

Answer 1 · 2020-10-22T23:56:39.000Z

Chuck, sure in fact we don't even mind switching from MD5 to a different checksum as long as it works reasonably well to detect corruption of data.

Answer 2 · 2021-02-09T19:06:54.000Z

@chuckatkins: since we did not receive a pull request in a long time, I am assuming this is not an issue any longer. Feel free to reopen it if needed.