SPUG:Re: Appropriateness of MD5

Jeremy Mates jmates at sial.org
Fri Mar 21 00:34:08 CST 2003


* David Dyck <david.dyck at fluke.com>
> but you are only looking at the first 4 bytes of the 16 byte sum
> 
>  change
>      sprintf "%08x", unpack "N",
>  to
>      unpack "H*",
> and you'll get no duplicates

True, but that just emulates the regular md5_hex output, which has
nothing to do with the eight character "openssl x509 -noout -hash" style
short hashes the script should be generating.



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