Jeff Garland wrote:
md5 and SHA code <http://opensource.adobe.com/classadobe_1_1md5__t.html> <http://opensource.adobe.com/group__adobe__sha.html> Review and a short tutorial
I wonder if these would be logical additions to boost.hash which is new in 1.34?
Not really, it's only concerned with providing an implementation std::tr1::hash - ie. for TR1 style unordered associative containers. Which is why it's officially called 'Boost.Functional/Hash', although I know that name's unpopular - 'TR1 Hash' might be better. MD5 and SHA aren't at all appropriate for that, are used in a very different manner and produce much larger hash values - so it doesn't even make sense to provide a common interface. Boost also has a CRC library, but again, that's intended for another use altogether. I suppose the different libraries could be loosely grouped together under a Boost.Hash moniker, but for organisation purposes more than anything. Daniel