note 17385 added to function.mhash

From: Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:02:23 +0000
Subject: note 17385 added to function.mhash
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Many digest algorithms (especially MD5) are less secure if you are hashing data that is smaller than the algorithm's output. I recommend either hashing a secret key/salt with the original data to increase it's security. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mhash.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+17385 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+17385 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+17385

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