MD5

I know this is an old question and has a simple answer, but I want to use MD5 and need to know if the algorithm is exporatble without any special permissions. I am assuming the answer is yes, but would like some reassurance... I'm using for message digesting, and it does *not* need to be crypto-secure. If you know of other algorithms that might be cheap and also have good bit scattering characteristics, please let me know. (As it is, MD5 runs at >10k lines per second for the files I'm scanning; I need to do many, many runs of it over smaller subsections, so the faster, the better.) Thanks in advance for help on this, Paul E. Baclace peb@procase.com peb@well.sf.ca.us