md2 support?

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Thu Dec 16 17:41:12 CET 2004


On Thursday 16 December 2004 17:13, Werner Koch wrote:

> > I recalled hearing that RSA had later extended that license to "any
> > purpose", and after some searching I found this documented at
> > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/RSA-MD-all. Does this address Werner's
> > licensing concerns?
> Okay, that is fine.
> > I would therefore ask you to please reconsider adding md2-support back.

> Well, we can do that but first of all we need an implementation.
> There has never been MD2 support in Libgcrypt.  An implementation most
> be done from scratch or real public domain code.  The author needs to
> sign a disclaimer or assignment to the FSF.

Nettle already includes an implementation of md2 written by Niels.


>   Werner

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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos



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