[lug] portable md5 function?

[D. Stimits]

George Sexton wrote:
> 
> This is probably overkill, but I am sure that OpenSSL has MD5 functions
> built in.

Hmm...I'll investigate, it seems like it should.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of D. Stimits
> Sent: 21 August, 2001 11:28 AM
> To: BLUG
> Subject: [lug] portable md5 function?
> 
> I'm trying to find out if there is now a semi-portable (at least among
> linux machines, probably UNIX in general) md5 sum function call
> available. The original crypt() one-way hash does not use md5, but most
> of the linux distro's now use md5 (or make it available) for passwords.
> Is this possibly built into the libpam library? I'm trying to find a C
> function call to do this, without invoking a "system()" call.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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