NAME

       libmd — Message Digest functions from BSD systems

DESCRIPTION

       The  libmd  library  provides message digest functions found on BSD systems either on their libc or libmd
       libraries and lacking on others like GNU systems, thus making it easier to port projects with strong  BSD
       origins, without needing to embed the same code over and over again on each project.

       The  library  provides a compatibility interface for the Aladding Enterprises MD5 implementation, but the
       interface is not exposed by default  to  avoid  polluting  the  namespace.   The  LIBMD_MD5_ALADDIN  pre-
       processor variable needs to be defined to expose this interface.

       The library provides a pkgconf(1) entry named libmd.

HEADERS

       The libmd library provides compatibility with various BSD headers and interfaces.

       The following headers are provided for compatibility with NetBSD and OpenBSD.

       <md2.h>
       <md4.h>
       <md5.h>
       <rmd160.h>
       <sha1.h>
       <sha2.h>

       The following headers are provided for compatibility with FreeBSD and DragonFly.

       <ripemd.h>
       <sha.h>
       <sha256.h>
       <sha512.h>

SEE ALSO

       md2(3), md4(3), md5(3), rmd160(3), sha1(3), sha2(3).

HISTORY

       The libmd project started in the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port as part of the libbsd library, as a way to ease
       porting  code  from FreeBSD to the GNU-based system.  It was subsequently split into a project created on
       Hadrons.Org (mirrored on FreeDesktop.Org) for other  distributions  and  projects  to  use,  and  further
       extended to match the other BSD interfaces.

       It is now distributed as part of most non-BSD distributions

Debian                                            Oct 05, 2021                                          libmd(7)