Sorry my bad; I read your post but I didn't understand it fully. I agree with the others; there is no theoretical limit (only physical like available memory, disk space, etc..) to the size of a string which you can pass to the md5() function.
-Pete
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:29, Michael Müller
>mhm, I think there was a missunderstanding ;)
>I want to know, how long the input-string could be (so that the encoded
>strings, that you get, are unique)
In theory, you are limited by the fact that the MD5 message digest is 128
bits long, so collisions are /possible/, but not /probable/. In prac
No limit for the input string
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mhm, I think there was a missunderstanding ;)
I want to know, how long the input-s
On Saturday 10 January 2004 01:29, Michael Müller wrote:
> mhm, I think there was a missunderstanding ;)
> I want to know, how long the input-string could be (so that the encoded
> strings, that you get, are unique)
Basically, as long as you like (within memory constraints).
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On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:29, Michael MÃller wrote:
> mhm, I think there was a missunderstanding ;)
> I want to know, how long the input-string could be (so that the encoded
> strings, that you get, are unique)
I don't think there is a limit, theoretically. In practice you might
have other constrai
mhm, I think there was a missunderstanding ;)
I want to know, how long the input-string could be (so that the encoded
strings, that you get, are unique)
Michael
It's always a 32 character string.
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php
-Peter
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:30, Michael Müller wrote:
Hi,
is anybody here who knows the max_length of a string which is encoded by
md5()?
thx, Michael
Berlin, Germany
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perl -e 'print pack("H*", "707
Hi,
is anybody here who knows the max_length of a string which is encoded by
md5()?
thx, Michael
Berlin, Germany
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