note 46844 deleted from function.md5 by mazzanet
| From: | mazzanet@php.net | Date: | Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:26:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 46844 deleted from function.md5 by mazzanet | ||
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Note Submitter: rikki dot tissier at gmail dot com
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It should be remembered that md5 is a *hashing algorithm* and *not* an encryption algorithm. md5
creates a hash representation of the data, it does not encrypt it.
It is therefore theoretically possible that 2 or more strings will generate the same hash when run
through md5().