From: Ben Schumacher <ben@...>
Date: 2003-03-20T01:08:41+09:00
Subject: Digest::MD5 on Mac OS X

Hello-

I recently started using Ruby on Mac OS X, and I've noticed a small 
problem. The version of Ruby that comes with OS X 10.2 seems to have 
Digest::MD5 compiled incorrectly. I'm not 100% certain of this, but I 
know that its computing different values for an MD5 than both OpenSSL's 
MD5 command, and the command line utility ported from FreeBSD. This is, 
obviously, a problem. I'm probably going to investigate recompiling 
Ruby to see if this solves the problem, but since I'm working on a 
project that I hope to distribute more widely than just for me, I'm 
thinking I need a better solution.

Has anybody created a pure Ruby implementation of Digest::MD5? I figure 
this would be the easiest way to go, as it would work on any box that 
has Ruby installed. Is this worth the trouble? Or does somebody have a 
better idea?

Any input is appreciated.

Cheers,

bs.