Re: [ANN] A new md5 module for Lua.

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:15, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> Support question (I have as well) on this; whats the going procedure to
> update sources of general lua items like this?
> Most of the Kepler projects have some forks on github (see luadoc for
> example), it that the best way to make the sources available?
>
> Or like Xavier did, dropping it here in the list? Or else...

This is a question for Kepler project mailing list.

I'm not a maintainer so I can't say for the official way to do it. But
pull requests on GitHub always worked for me.

Here is an official GH page: http://github.com/keplerproject/

HTH,
Alexander.

P.S. Please, do not top-post on this ML.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org]
>> On Behalf Of Xavier Wang
>> Sent: maandag 26 september 2011 7:08
>> To: lua
>> Subject: [ANN] A new md5 module for Lua.
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have improved a md5 module for Lua, this is based on the lua-md5
>> module from keplerproject[1]. I have made these improve:
>>
>> * merge sumhexa into binary, now a simple binary module for lua can
>> support all md5 functional, needn't a separate pure lua module file.
>> * add tohex function, to convert any binary string into hex mode.
>> * import sum and sumhexa function to support calculate hash in
>> segments.
>>
>> now sum can accept a second state argument. the semantics just borrowed
>> from slncrypto[2]:
>>
>> md5.sum(data)
>>       returns the 16 byte MD5 digest as a string.
>> md5.sum(data, state)
>>       if data length is a multiple of 64 byte and not 0,
>>               returns a state, which is a string of digest, blank and a
>> decimal number
>>       else only the digest
>>       use "" as initial state
>>
>> the same as sumhexa function.
>>
>> [1] http://www.keplerproject.org/md5/
>> [2] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-02/msg00744.html
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