This was originally a rather straight re-implementation of the reference implementation given in RFC1321 by RSA. It passes the MD5 test suite as defined in RFC1321.
Many optimizations made by Timothy W Macinta. Reduced time to checksum a test file in Java alone to roughly half the time taken compared with java.security.MessageDigest (within an intepretter). Also added an optional native method to reduce the time even further. See http://www.twmacinta.com/myjava/fast_md5.php for further information on the time improvements achieved.
Some bug fixes also made by Timothy W Macinta.
Please note: I (Timothy Macinta) have put this code in the com.twmacinta.util package only because it came without a package. I was not the the original author of the code, although I did optimize it (substantially) and fix some bugs.
This Java class has been derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm and its reference implementation.
This class will attempt to use a native method to quickly compute checksums when the appropriate native library is available. On Linux, this library should be named "MD5.so" and on Windows it should be named "MD5.dll". The code will attempt to locate the library in the following locations in the order given:
If the library is not found, the code will fall back to the default (slower) Java code.
As a side effect of having the code search for the native library, SecurityExceptions might be thrown on JVMs that have a restrictive SecurityManager. The initialization code attempts to silently discard these exceptions and continue, but many SecurityManagers will attempt to notify the user directly of all SecurityExceptions thrown. Consequently, the code has provisions for skipping the search for the native library. Any of these provisions may be used to skip the search as long as they are performed before the first instance of a com.twmacinta.util.MD5 object is constructed (note that the convenience stream objects will implicitly create an MD5 object).
The first option is to set the system property "com.twmacinta.util.MD5.NO_NATIVE_LIB" to "true" or "1". Unfortunately, SecurityManagers may also choose to disallow system property setting, so this won't be of use in all cases.
The second option is to call com.twmacinta.util.MD5.initNativeLibrary(false) before any MD5 objects are constructed.
@author Santeri Paavolainen
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