From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-09-25T20:20:22+09:00
Subject: Re: MD5 function

Daniel Hobe <hobe@gmail.com> writes:

> Don't use the digest/* modules.  They're slower than the openssl ones
> and have given me no end of trouble (mostly Segfaults):
>
> require 'openssl'
> OpenSSL::Digest::MD5.hexdigest('foo')
> => "acbd18db4cc2f85cedef654fccc4a4d8"

However, note that not everyone has OpenSSL installed (mostly due to
the lack of its headers when installing).

Digest::MD5 is more likely to be there, and I didn't have problems
with it so far.

In doubt, try and rescue.
-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org