[lug] Re: portable md5 function?

[D. Stimits]

"Thomas R. Detman" wrote:
> 
> My Red Hat (KRUD 7.0) system contains '/usr/bin/md5sum', but the
> date on it is Aug 30 2000, so I think it may have been part of
> KRUD 6.2+.  Anyway, if I type 'md5sum /usr/bin/md5sum', it says:
> 'e0bf91d478e6ecf512922c91544a74ba  /usr/bin/md5sum', is that
> what you're looking for?
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I'm looking for this in the form of a C function call, rather than a
command line program. I wonder if the md5 based passwords rely on this
separate program rather than a C function call? It seems more likely
that somewhere there is a replacement to the old crypt() function call.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com