On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:21:03PM +0100, Francisco Olarte Sanz wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> > Unless you need cryptographic security I would not suggest using MD5. MD5
> > is intentionally designed to take a substantial amount of CPU resources to
> > calculate.
>
> I thought it was the exact opposite, quoting from RFC1321:
And if you *do* need cryptographic security then don't use MD5, and
consider using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1. See RFC 4270 for discussion.
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4270.txt
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Michael Fuhr