Tim Attwood wrote:
>> By the way, do you know how MD5 works? It's kind of interesting. I'm 
>> currently trying to implement it in Haskell - but I'm being thwarted 
>> because it uses that brain-deadness known as "little-endian integers". 
>> (These really shouldn't exist...)
> 
> Someone at Oxford has done it, but I think it uses the FFI.
> http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/ian.lynagh/md5/haskell-md5-0.1.0/ 

In fact, *several* people have done it - ranging from FFI bindings to 
existing MD5 libraries to pure Haskell implementations in different forms.

I'm mainly trying to implement it in Haskell for fun; it'll probably go 
too slow to be useful. (But we'll see about that...)

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