Re: Luacrypto does not seem to successfully install on two platforms.

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:39:59 +0800
Jacques Chester <jacques@chester.id.au> wrote:

> As part of a project I am developing I am planning to use SHA1 HMAC  
> digests.
> LuaCrypto advertises the ability to do these by wrapping OpenSSL.

Firstly, if all you are planning on using from LuaCrypto is SHA1, then
it may be a bit of a heavy-weight solution; writing your own binding to
an off-the-shelf SHA1 implementation should take about 10 minutes.

Secondly, I assume you know that SHA1 is no longer safe to use in new
designs :)

B.