And yes...md5 is a message digest hashing utility for "compact digital
signatures for an arbitrarily long stream of binary data."

MD5 website...

Thanks,

Ray Hunter



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> What about MD5?
>

MD5 is a message digest I believe,
something akin to the oldstyle CRC32.

Then again I haven't used it much (just to verify a client's credit card
number without revealing the CC number).

HTH,
Dw.


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