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