Talk:MD5/Implementation

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)

"Usind native facilities" sounds like "using built-in features" which leads me to believe that if the language has a built-in library for this then that's ok. The examples show the opposite. Maybe change it to "coding the algorithm directly (not using a call to a built-in or external hashing library)" or something like that? The name should probably be changed to "MD5/Implementation" to fit with the link list tasks. --Mwn3d 12:30, 29 September 2010 (UTC)