On 24 August 2010 15:43, Gary <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jan G.B. wrote: > >> The weakness of MD5 is mainly because MD5 collisions are possible. >> That means, that different strings can have the same MD5-hash... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#cite_note-1 It's worth noting that that essentially does not touch upon whether or not MD5 can be considered safe or not as a means to store password information. The researchers have discovered ways of crafting inputs to easily find colliding hashes - they have not discovered any easy means to craft an input that will collide with a given hash. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
