Re: md5 encryption

simon wrote:
>
> Of course, but seen that almost every application out there only compare the
> hash it doesn't really matter.
>
> And all I was trying to do was to correct the statement that md5 was a one
> way hash.
>

It is a one way hash function.

Read it's documentation.

Nobody said that one-way hash functions were free of collisions,
however. The fact is, it *IS* a one way hash function. Like any one of
them, there will be collisions present. Please, do some reading.

- Mike
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