crypting

[Dave Wilson]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:33:50PM +0100, Scott McWhirter wrote:

> I'm looking for the fastest and decently secure way of generating one
> way crypt for use with Apache::AuthCookie. Michael Schout recommends MD5
> hex for this but i was just wanting a litle input... not that it matters
> in OO but for future reference it would be handy to know.

As far as fastish, secure one-way hashes that are available everywhere
goes, MD5 is dah bomb :}. If you're just generating sessions IDs
(re: other night IRC), md5 would be fine.

> ta!


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