Talk:MD5/Implementation
< Talk:MD5
After reviewing the original MD5 page and realizing it was all over the map, it seemed reasonable to want to show off native capabilities of languages to meet a well specified and demanding problem. Most of the solutions on the original MD5 page will not satisfy this task description.
- Autohotkey has a largely native implementation that uses a couple of DLL calls. However, the core of the algorithm is implemented as native code and meets the intent here.
- C, Liberty Basic, Matlab (if fixed), Modula3 all seem to satisfy the coding part of the task
- Common Lisp may qualify if more is shown, as may Forth
- The Python examples use hashlib which uses an external call. However, there is Python 2 code http://www.equi4.com/md5/ that is native and a direct translation of RFC 1321 with the RSA copyrights (I think a derivative work of an RFC is fair game but haven't actually checked it out).
Basically, I think this is ready but wanted input/review.
I considered adding a 'performance' measure but was wondering how to compare apples to apples with so many different processors around.
--Dgamey 03:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)