note 26292 added to function.md5

From: Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:10:14 +0000
Subject: note 26292 added to function.md5
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A brute force attack on a MD5 hashes seems to be useless, considering the following facts: - there are 2^128 of different MD5 hashes. (16^32) - there is an almost infinite number of possible character combinations - if you create 2^128+1 different strings, MD5 will produce at least 2 equal MD5 hashes. - if equal keys are possible it seems to be (?) impossible to "encrypt" an MD5 hash -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+26292 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+26292 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+26292

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