RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?
| From: | Ray Hunter | Date: | Tue, 21 May 2002 20:58:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish? | ||
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And yes...md5 is a message digest hashing utility for "compact digital
signatures for an arbitrarily long stream of binary data."
MD5 website...
Thanks,
Ray Hunter
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Mcrypt: Blowfish or Twofish or no fish?
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> What about MD5?
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MD5 is a message digest I believe,
something akin to the oldstyle CRC32.
Then again I haven't used it much (just to verify a client's credit card
number without revealing the CC number).
HTH,
Dw.