note 16850 added to function.md5

From: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:53:48 +0000
Subject: note 16850 added to function.md5
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Security of MD5 for hashing passwords: one guy had access to hashes of passwords of my users - during a month, he cracked 450 of them. Using 40MB wordlist and distributed password cracker (his own program - making 2.5M tries per second - running on 5 common machines), the results were: Cracked in less than 1 minute: 45.3% Cracked in less than 20 minutes: 63.4% Cracked in less than 1 week: 75.6% -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+16850 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+16850 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+16850

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