Crypt::RIPEMD160 Extension Version 0.04

Crypt::RIPEMD160 adcO "RIPEMD-160 message digest algorithm" CHGEUER

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CHANGES:

Crypt-RIPEMD160-0.04 now supports BigEndian architectures (thanks to Ken Neighbors)

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INSTALLATION:

This is a Perl5 extension interface to the RIPEMD-160
Message Digest algorithm. Documentation is in RIPEMD160.pm

To build the extension, unpack this distribution under the ext/
directory of your Perl source distribution, create the Makefile using
'perl Makefile.PL' and do a 'make'.

Then try a 'make test' and wait for performing all tests.

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SOURCES:

All files in doc/ and the rmd160.*-files are taken from a sample
implementation of RIPEMD-160. 

see also the RIPEMD160-Homepage: 
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html

The wrap_160.*-files are wrapper-code to allow the user to add 
small pieces of data to the message digest and to have the same 
convenient API like MD5 and SHA give. The Wrapper-Code was written 
by Christian Geuer. 

The rest (RIPEMD160.pm, RIPEMD160.xs, typemap, test.pl and Makefile.PL) are 
stolen and modified from MD5-1.7 and SHA-1.1. Thanks to Neil Wilton and
Uwe Hollerbach for writing this code.

Thanks to Ken Neighbors who updated this module to support big-endian
systems in April 2001. Enclosed his comments:

<COMMENT FROM="Ken Neighbors">
I changed three files: RIPEMD160.xs, wrap_160.h, wrap_160.c

In RIPEMD160.xs, the section commented /* Little Endian (1234) */
actually works for big-endian systems as well, so I deleted the
section commented /* Big Endian (4321) */.

In wrap_160.h I added a buffer called "data" to hold the unprocessed
bytes.  The buffer "X" is now only used to hold bytes for processing.

In wrap_160.c I used a trick from hashtest.c (available at
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html) to do the
correct byte-ordering.
</COMMENT>

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ADRESSES:

Christian Geuer-Pollmann: geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de
Uwe Hollerbach: uh@alumni.caltech.edu
Ken Neighbors: ken@nsds.com
Neil Wilton: N.Wilton@axion.bt.co.uk

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TEST-VECTORS:

RIPEMD-160 test suite results (ASCII):

* message: "" (empty string)
  hashcode: 9c1185a5c5e9fc54612808977ee8f548b2258d31
* message: "a"
  hashcode: 0bdc9d2d256b3ee9daae347be6f4dc835a467ffe
* message: "abc"
  hashcode: 8eb208f7e05d987a9b044a8e98c6b087f15a0bfc
* message: "message digest"
  hashcode: 5d0689ef49d2fae572b881b123a85ffa21595f36
* message: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
  hashcode: f71c27109c692c1b56bbdceb5b9d2865b3708dbc
* message: "abcdbcdecdefdefgefghfghighijhijkijkljklmklmnlmnomnopnopq"
  hashcode: 12a053384a9c0c88e405a06c27dcf49ada62eb2b
* message: "A...Za...z0...9"
  hashcode: b0e20b6e3116640286ed3a87a5713079b21f5189
* message: 8 times "1234567890"
  hashcode: 9b752e45573d4b39f4dbd3323cab82bf63326bfb
* message: 1 million times "a"
  hashcode: 52783243c1697bdbe16d37f97f68f08325dc1528

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