note 59327 deleted from function.md5 by joey

From: Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:43:12 +0000
Subject: note 59327 deleted from function.md5 by joey
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Note Submitter: Jon Watte ---- Scrambling the md5 adds no security, because it only adds obscurity. md5 is a reasonably strong hash function, although it's recently been shown to be weaker than previously thought. If hashing your password with md5 isn't good enough for you, then you should use a stronger hash like Tiger instead -- not apply amateurish obfuscation that only serves to give you a false sense of security. I don't know of an implementation of Tiger for PHP, but the algorithm is pretty simple (and secure) so you could probably write it in plain PHP code.

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