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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Mon Feb 28 17:48:46 2022 +0100 (2022-02-28) |
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1 The Digest::MD5 module allows you to use the RSA Data Security Inc.
2 MD5 Message Digest algorithm from within Perl programs.
3 The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and
4 produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest"
5 of the input.
7 Note that the MD5 algorithm is not as strong as it used to be.
8 It has since 2005 been easy to generate different messages that
9 produce the same MD5 digest.
10 It still seems hard to generate messages that produce a given digest,
11 but it is probably wise to move to stronger algorithms for applications
12 that depend on the digest to uniquely identify a message.
14 The Digest::MD5 module provides a procedural interface for simple use,
15 as well as an object oriented interface that can handle messages of
16 arbitrary length and which can read files directly.