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

If I was a betting man (which I am), I'd bet that it has something to 
do with endianess. I'm just not sure why the Apple folks (of all 
people) who have made that mistake.

The only problem I have with rolling my own Ruby is that it won't help 
anybody that might just download my software. (I'm working with 
RubyCocoa, so its going to be pretty much OS X specific, anyhow.)

Cheers,

bs.

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:24  AM, Richard Kilmer wrote:
> 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.