Re: [Haskell-beginners] Best MD5 module?

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen < haskell@patrickmylund.com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:30 PM Dan Stromberg wrote:

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What's the best module for doing an MD5 hash?

More specifically, I want to hash the first few dozen K of a file, and then the entire file - to get two different hashes.

I would use the one from cryptohash if you're looking for performance, however I must stress that using MD5 for anything "new" is almost certainly a bad idea. If you aren't doing this for compatibility reasons, you should use something else, like BLAKE2: https://blake2.net/

You might also be interested in https://hackage.haskell.org/package/saltine

My use of MD5 is strictly non-cryptographic. It is in a limited sense for compatibility with other software - but it's more about doing the same algorithm in multiple languages for the sake of comparison. I'll look at cryptohash. Thanks. Dan Stromberg