MD5

[Paul Baclace]

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 at procase.com
peb at well.sf.ca.us