Overview
MD5 offers checksum facilities for Lua 5.X: a hash (digest) function, a pair crypt/decrypt based on MD5 and CFB, and a pair crypt/decrypt based on DES with 56-bit keys.
Note that although MD5 was designed to be used as a cryptographic hash function, it was found that key collisions could be calculated in a few seconds, thus it should not be used where a cryptographic hash is required.
MD5 is free software and uses the same license as Lua (MIT).
Status
MD5 version 1.3 is now available for download.
Download
MD5 can be downloaded in source code from its GitHub page.
You can also install MD5 using LuaRocks:
luarocks install md5
History
- Version 1.3 [16/Apr/2019]
- Code updated to compile for Lua 5.X. Tested with Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4-work2.
- Version 1.2 [06/Sep/2013]
- Code adapted to compile for Lua 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2
- Version 1.1.2 [12/May/2008]
- Fixed bug in 64-bit systems
- Fixed the Windows makefile to accept longer directory names (patch by Alessandro Hecht and Ignacio Burgueño).
- Version 1.1.1 [28/Nov/2007]
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- Added DES56 tests (by Mauricio Bomfim)
- Updated DES56 source to the latest release from Stuart Levy
- Version 1.1.0 [30/Oct/2007]
- Added DES56 crypt/decrypt functions.
- Version 1.0.2 [08/May/2007]
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- Added a nmake version for Lua 5.1
- Windows binaries for Lua 5.1.2
- Version 1.0.1 [21/Aug/2006]
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- Adapted to work with both Lua 5.0 and Lua 5.1
- Windows binaries for Lua 5.0.3
- Version 1.0.0
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- First public version
Credits
This Lua version of MD5 was designed and implemented by Roberto Ierusalimschy and Marcela Ozório Suarez (based on the original MD5 by Ron Rivest). The DES 56 C library was implemented by Stuart Levy and uses a MIT license too. The current distribution was packed by Tomás Guisasola and Fábio Mascarenhas as part of the Kepler Project.