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:
The MD5 algorithm is designed to be quite fast on 32-bit machines. In
addition, the MD5 algorithm does not require any large substitution
tables; the algorithm can be coded quite compactly.
F.O.S.
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