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From: Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>
To: Francisco Olarte Sanz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #3965: UNIQUE constraint fails on long column values
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:41:54 -0700
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:21:03PM +0100, Francisco Olarte Sanz wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Gregory Stark wrote:
> 
> > Unless you need cryptographic security I would not suggest using MD5. MD5
> > is intentionally designed to take a substantial amount of CPU resources to
> > calculate.
> 
> I thought it was the exact opposite, quoting from RFC1321:

And if you *do* need cryptographic security then don't use MD5, and
consider using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1.  See RFC 4270 for discussion.

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4270.txt

-- 
Michael Fuhr

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