[Haskell-cafe] ANN: nano-hmac 0.2.0

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Tue Feb 12 14:03:42 EST 2008


Ok, I'll leave it up there as a separate package then.  :)

-- Don

hitesh.jasani:
> Don,
> 
> It's tempting, but I would really hate to lose nano-md5 as it is
> today.  I thought your concept was a great idea to inspire people to
> start small to get a feel for developing Haskell libraries.  The
> current nano-md5 serves as a really good example.
> 
> In the Ruby community there are many small libraries that do one,
> simple focused task.  There are times when this is a virtue over
> libraries that try to be all encompassing.  It's weird but I would
> have thought the Haskell community would have more embraced small
> libraries also since they may be more composable.
> 
> - Hitesh
> 
> 
> On Feb 11, 2008 4:29 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > hitesh.jasani:
> > > nano-hmac provides bindings to OpenSSL's HMAC interface.  With this release the
> > > set of hashing functions supported is: MD5, SHA, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384,
> > > SHA512.
> > >
> > > If you're unfamiliar with HMAC's then you may want to check out the second link
> > > below where I explain a little bit about them in a blog entry.
> > >
> > > The hackage pages mentioned that they're not running haddock 2.0, so I don't
> > > know if the docs will generate.  If not, you can see the docs online at the
> > > third link below.
> > >
> > > * http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/nano-hmac-0.2.0
> > > * http://www.jasani.org/2008/02/nano-hmac-020-released.html
> > > * http://docs.jasani.org/nano-hmac/0.2.0/
> > >
> > > Any and all comments/suggestions/criticisms/fortune-cookie-proverbs are welcome.
> > >
> >
> > Shall we merge nano-md5 into this lib, and deprecate nano-md5 itself?
> > Seems like a good time to consolidate, and produce a single openssl
> > binding.
> >
> > -- Don
> >


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