Re: md5
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:49:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: md5 | ||
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Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does md5 really offer much in terms of protection?
can you STFW?
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkkQsQ65FTlkBrTVXNyoA?p=does+md5+offer+any+protection&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&x=wrt
>
> The algorithm is really well known.
do you work for microsoft? strength of a crypto algorithm has nothing
to do with whether it's definition known or not.
security through obscrurity ... isn't.
>
> I would like to hear your thoughts and poosible alternatives (mcrypt?)
an alternative might be to first STFM?:
http://php.net/sha1 (also read the user notes)
>
> R.
>