Quick MD5 question
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:13 am
I've heard that sometimes generating a MD5 string in PHP can return a different string to an MD5 generated in C++. From what I can find on the internet there seems to be some truth in this somewhere but I can't find out why this is or how to prevent it happening... Does anybody have a solution?
Also, having never really taken the time to look at MD5 strings properly before I have noticed that out of 100,000 MD5 strings I have just been given (don't ask!) the characters of each string contain only 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f. Does anybody know why this might be? I've had a look around the 'net and could not really see much to explain this... Anybody?
Many thanks
Antony
Also, having never really taken the time to look at MD5 strings properly before I have noticed that out of 100,000 MD5 strings I have just been given (don't ask!) the characters of each string contain only 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f. Does anybody know why this might be? I've had a look around the 'net and could not really see much to explain this... Anybody?
Many thanks
Antony