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Article #194Re: What is Checksum, CRC and MD5 hash???
From: Kurt Wismer
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
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Tommy Petrogiannis wrote: > >MD5 is a one-way cryptographic hash function developed by Ron Rivest > >(MD=message digest). It is used in the PEM (privacy enhanced mail) > >protocols for authentication. It works with input of arbitrary length > >and produces a 128 bit result. > > Can anyone freely use MD5? Or is the algorithm covered by patent > and royalty payments to RSA? as far as i know, there is no patent on md5... it's public domain and source for it is not especially hard to come by... you can freely use it...
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