[Haskell-cafe] MD5?

[Andrew Coppin]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Saturday, November 17, 2007, 5:45:29 PM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> wasn't MD5 itself. It's all the datatype conversions. Nowhere in the
>> Haskell libraries can I find any of these functions:
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>
>   
>> I had to write all these myself, by hand, and then check that I got
>>     
>
> it's a good case for making useful library and put it to hackage ;)
>
> you may wonder, but there is no paid army of haskellers which wrote
> all the libs you required. everything you've seen are written by
> enthusiasts just because they need it for their work
>   

Just looked like something that would be frequently required, but anyway...

Out of curiosity, what's hackage, and how do you put stuff on it?

> while working on my own program, i've made bindings to aes, twofish,
> sha512, pkcs5, fortune and lot of other C libs
>   

I don't know C, so I can't really write bindings. (I also don't have a C 
compiler for that matter... Presumably I'd have to move to Linux for that.)