BTW, I figured out I could just prepend a long, complex string to whatever I am hashing and it will 'seed' it before it gets to my stuff.
Jason k Larson wrote:
mhash (PHP 3>= 3.0.9, PHP 4 )
mhash -- Compute hash
Description:
string mhash ( int hash, string data [, string key])
^ salt/seed/key - whatever you want to call it
-- Jason k Larson
Dennis Gearon wrote:
I don't see anywhere on that page where it shows using a seed. It shows **selecting a hash algorithm**, but no salt. Maybe that's the second argument that you're looking at.
Jason k Larson wrote:
First of all, the example you gave is only using one argument to the MD5 function.
Secondly, if you *want* to seed/salt the MD5 with a key you can use:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mhash.php
-- Jason k Larson aka: der Ritter
Dennis Gearon wrote:
The usage of md5() in PHPLIB show TWO arguments, a seed and the string. Nothing in the online manual shows 2 args. What's the dealio?
Line 111 from PHPLIB7.2c - session.inc:
$id = $this->that->ac_newid(md5(uniqid($this->magic)), $this->name);
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