Re: Re: Searching Crypt_HCEMD5

--- Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote: > Hi Stefan Neufeind, you wrote: > > > anybody knows where Crypt_HCEMD5 has vanished off the earth? Somebody > > lately asked that he wanted to install a tool, but missed this package. > > It doesn't seem to be available any longer. Only found one email from > > Alan "complaining" about this in March 2003, but found no reaction yet. > > Hi Stefan, I don't know anything about it, sorry, > but I wonder if it has been merged into PEAR::Message? PEAR::Message does Hash and HMAC calculations (RFCs 2104 and 2202), not the chaining block cipher (CBC) that CPAN's HCE_MD5 performs. The package mentioned above was based on that CPAN module IIRC. The HCE_MD5 method works along the lines of HMAC, but it is not the same, it says to be similar to what Radius does (http://search.cpan.org/src/EESTABROO/Crypt-HCE_MD5-0.70/README) Of the PEAR packages Crypt_HMAC is to Message, as Cache_Lite is to Cache, or something along those lines. ===== -- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Weblog: http://weblog.castagnetto.org/ PEAR stuff: http://pear.php.net/user/jmcastagnetto _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com