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Is a HMAC MD5 hash more secure than a MD5 with a append key?

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:21 am
by WaldoMonster
From the example, Is $hash1 more secure than $hash2 ?

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<?php
$data = 'some data to hash';
$key  = 'HjkH&#@ih3IHuugUI#yu6898ljg*WIllO091)2';

$hash1 = bin2hex(mhash(MHASH_MD5, $data, $key));
$hash2 = md5($data . $key);
?>