On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:19:32AM -0700, Mark Gardner wrote:
> Does this mean that anything that uses MD5 as a hash alorithm is
> vunerable.  So I if i have a website that md5 encrypts passwords to
> store in a database, does that mean that I should use something
> else?  If so what is a good option.

MD5 is perfectly fine for that usage.  And it's not technically
``encryption''; it's hashing.

Mike
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