note 49190 deleted from function.md5 by mazzanet

From: Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:30:13 +0000
Subject: note 49190 deleted from function.md5 by mazzanet
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Note Submitter: Peter ---- An earlier poster suggested using md5 multiple times and strrev. I cannot stress enough that this is an incredibly bad idea: when you md5 a md5 hash you're vastly increasing the chance of a collision. The only possible security here is through obscurity -- and that's no security at all. If you're worried about md5's collisions, try looking at the sha1 function and/or enforcing password restrictions on your system

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