Re: MD5 hash for url and utf unicode converting to ascii

2008-06-24 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
joe shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to convert url into md5 hash. My question is that md5 > hash will create collision at 2^64. If you do long(value,16), where > value is the md5 hash string, would value returned from long(value, > 16) be unique as long as md5 hashed string

Re: MD5 hash for url and utf unicode converting to ascii

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel Pitts
joe shoemaker wrote: I would like to convert url into md5 hash. My question is that md5 hash will create collision at 2^64. If you do long(value,16), where value is the md5 hash string, would value returned from long(value, 16) be unique as long as md5 hashed string is unique? when you move md5 h

MD5 hash for url and utf unicode converting to ascii

2008-06-23 Thread joe shoemaker
I would like to convert url into md5 hash. My question is that md5 hash will create collision at 2^64. If you do long(value,16), where value is the md5 hash string, would value returned from long(value, 16) be unique as long as md5 hashed string is unique? when you move md5 hashed string to long, w