From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-03-20T01:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Digest::MD5 on Mac OS X

Yeah...I found the same problem with Digest::SHA1 on OS X.  I don't 
quite know why but the hashing stuff is screwed up.  I use SHA hashing 
in my Jabber4r library for digest authentication, and so for me to not 
be able to use it was a show stopper.  I ended up download and building 
the source from cvs (for Ruby 1.8).  The hash stuff in Ruby works great 
and cross-platform...I really don't know what the Apple guys did to 
screw this up.

-rich


On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 11:08  AM, Ben Schumacher wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>