Hi While in some environments the use of MD5 and SHA1 are still acceptable for some use cases like file integrity verification etc. the use of these algorithms should be discouraged and not be your choice when developing new applications.
I suggest to deprecated the functions md5_file() and sha1_file(). This will make people think about upgrading to a better alternative. If you still need this functionality you can always switch to the hash_file() function. Carrying around these two dedicated functions seems a bit too much for a modern PHP. What do you think? My feeling was that this is a no brainer. Should I open an RFC for this? Kind regards, Tom Van Looy
