From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-03-20T02:02:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Digest::MD5 on Mac OS X

I am using RubyCocoa as well.  You could always include an updated 
digest.bundle with your application that works under the installed 
(1.6.7) Ruby.  I think that could be built (although, like I said, I 
have switched to 1.8).

-rich

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 11:58  AM, Ben Schumacher wrote:

> 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.
>
>