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| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Wed Jun 22 17:23:49 2022 +0000 (2022-06-22) |
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| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 1 The Digest::MD5 module allows you to use the RSA Data Security Inc. |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 2 MD5 Message Digest algorithm from within Perl programs. |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 3 The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 4 produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 5 of the input. |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 6 |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 7 Note that the MD5 algorithm is not as strong as it used to be. |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 8 It has since 2005 been easy to generate different messages that |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 9 produce the same MD5 digest. |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 10 It still seems hard to generate messages that produce a given digest, |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 11 but it is probably wise to move to stronger algorithms for applications |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 12 that depend on the digest to uniquely identify a message. |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 13 |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 14 The Digest::MD5 module provides a procedural interface for simple use, |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 15 as well as an object oriented interface that can handle messages of |
| Hans-G?nter@24201 | 16 arbitrary length and which can read files directly. |