RIPEMD-160 Implementation

[Andres Mejia]

On Aug 29, 2011 2:54 PM, "Niels Möller" <nisse at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>
> nisse at lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
>
> >  I'd like to address the things I listed in a previous mail before
> > release.
>
> Now I have went through not only ripemd160, but all the supported hash
> functions. All are of the Merkle-Damgård type (except md2, which uses
> more stupid padding). I've tried to reduce the code duplication (in the
> source code) using some helper macros, and generally improve consistency
> a bit.
>
> ripemd160.c got reduced to 44 non-comment lines, with all the complexity
> in ripemd160-compress.c, as it should.
>
> Ah, and one other question: Do you want me to add your name to the
> copyright headers of the various ripemd160.c (I don't know how much
> editing you had to do when porting it from libgcrypt).

I don't think my name should be included in the copyright. I mainly stripped
out libgcrypt specific code like gcry_burn_stack() and spelled out some
typedefs (u32 -> uint32_t).

> Documentation for the ripemd160 algorithm remains to do.
>
> Regards,
> /Niels
>
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