I'm writing a module, where I want to store info on a per URI basis. For
reasons I won't go into here, I'm storing info in a file per URI. At the
moment, I'm tweaking the URI into Filesystem friendly characters, and calling
the file that.
Another alternative is to get the MD5 base64 key to the URI. My query is, what
is the chance of two URI's giving the same MD5? Is there any risk in it, or is
MD5 guranteed to give unique ID's? (I know the risk would be SLIM, but how
slim?) Is MD5 used regularly for this kind of thing?
(MD5 newbie...)
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