Bug #13206 Updated: MD5 option for 128 bytes long digest (standard)

ID: 13206 Updated by: heyesr Reported By: neurobasher@planetquake.com Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Windows 98 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: md5() outputs 32 hex characters. 1 hex character = 4 bits. 32 * 4 = 128 bits. 128 bits / 8 = 16 bytes Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-09-07 18:32:14] neurobasher@planetquake.com It's a feature request regarding the MD5 string function. The standard MD5 hash algorithm provides a 16 bytes long digest. PHP's MD5, even though it says it's "using the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", is non-standard: gives out a 32 bytes long digest. I like the MD5 function very much, but I don't like it being described as using MD5 if it doesn't act like the standard MD5 algorithm, so my suggestion is that you should at least provide an option to choose between "32 bytes digest (non-standard)" and "16 bytes digest (standard)" modes. It also would help a lot if source code/reference to PHP's unique MD5 implementation (which I can't seem to find ANYWHERE on the net) would be made available. Thank you in advance, Dan 'Neurobasher' Gomes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13206&edit=1