Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:38:22AM +0200, Sven Klemm wrote:
> > * Delete the nse_hash.* files.
>
> I've deleted those files but the MD5 and SHA1 functions/files still
> need to be removed from nbase.

I should emphasize that I don't want any of this to diminish the value
of the work done py Philip Pickering in developing the hash module.
Philip created the hash module to support the pop3.lua module, also
written by him as part of the 2008 Summer of Code. The new openssl hash
functions are the same ones that Philip's hash module provided, because
hash used a couple of file extracted from OpenSSL itself. Once it was
decided to support more of OpenSSL in NSE, it didn't make sense to keep
a small part of it separate, so the hashing responsibility was taken
over by openssl.

An early version of a similar library was written by Thomas Buchanan.
You can follow some of the history of this module at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0472.html
continued at
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q3/0223.html

David Fifield

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