note 9592 deleted from function.md5 by jimw
| From: | jimw@php.net | Date: | Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:01:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 9592 deleted from function.md5 by jimw | ||
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If you want some numbers that are actually unique, don't reley on md5 or any other kind of
checksum. If you think about it, if all binary sequences can be collapsed to a 32 character md5
checksum you are going to get a lot of repeats.
Why not use uniqid? It does generate uniqid's; md5 does not.
The good thing about md5 and other checksum's is tht it is hard to calculate what the dat was
that could have generated the checksum.
Sam