Subject: ANNOUNCE: MD5 Message Digest Module -- Version 1.5.1
From: [email-masked] (Neil Winton)
Date: 8 Mar 1996 14:09:01 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

MD5 Extension Version 1.5.1

This is a Perl5 extension interface to the RSA Data Security Inc. MD5
Message Digest algorithm.

Although version 1.4 was only recently released I have been persuaded to release
a new version rather sooner than I might otherwise have done so. This version is
NOT a bug-fix release but contains a requested new feature -- a "one-shot" hash
routine. This has been added to the main-line MD5 module distribution before this
module is incorporated in a wider set of cryptographic modules. (See attached
change history for further details of other recent changes).

Version 1.5.1 (file MD5-1.5.1.tar.gz) will become available from CPAN sites over
the next few days.

Bugs, queries, plaudits to

	Neil Winton

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*** 96/03/08 Version 1.5.1

Add CHANGES file to make it easier for people to figure out what has
been going on. (Meant to do this as part of 1.5)

*** 96/03/05 Version 1.5

Add hash() and hexhash() methods at the suggestion/request of Gary
Howland <[email-masked]> before inclusion in a wider library
of cryptography modules.

*** 96/02/27 Version 1.4

Finally fixed the pesky Solaris dynamic loading bug. All kudos to Ken
Pizzini <[email-masked]>!

*** 95/11/29 Version 1.3.1

Add explanations of current known problems.

*** 95/06/02 Version 1.3

Fix problems with scope resolution in addfile() reported by
Jean-Claude Giese <[email-masked]>. Basically ARGV is
always implicitly in package main while other filehandles aren't.
 
*** 95/05/23 Version 1.2.1

[Changes pre 1.2.1 not recorded]

SCCS ID @(#)CHANGES	1.1 96/03/08