On 01/20/2017 05:01 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik
>> <di...@webweaving.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok so if we had a special #ifdef for 'TRUE_MD5 and would manually 
>>> tweak/mark up the 2 or 3 places
>>> that we know we need a real MD5 - we could have a 'fiddle' mode where we 
>>> silently return a better 'md5'
>>> in the places where we would like to use a SHA256 but it is just too much 
>>> hassle to adjust things.
>>
>> MD5 *is* MD5, preferably used (and not recommended) for
>> non-cryptographic purpose, but still I think apr_md5()'s result
>> shouldn't differ from whatelse_md5()'s.
>>
>> We can't break users silently, if they use MD5, well they have it.
> 
> +1
> 

+1

Regards

RĂ¼diger

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