Re: current MD5 hash use

Peter Kundrat (kundrat nospam at gic.sk)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:15:10 +0100

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 08:42:47AM +0000, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> Someone else already touched on this, but I'd really suggest changing
> the form for the MD5 hashes being used. Currently the 128-bit value is
> being converted to a 32-character hexadecimal representation. I'd
> suggest changing it in all text forms to be the 24-character Base-64
> encoded form for the 128-bit hash.

Another minor suggestion(s):

Maybe it would be useful to pad the discid with some check digits to be
able to check it for validity (e.g. some checksum or modulo thing).

Peter

PS: Another suggestion is to allow only unicode data (or pure 7b acii,
thus UTF-8 is fine), otherwise we would have to cope with charset
tagging (with another problems with mixed charsets etc) ..

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Peter Kundrat
kundrat nospam at general-it.sk