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Re: uses of MD5 hashes



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At 05:29 AM 11/18/97 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
>  Now, if I have to build a btree or some structure to map hashes to 
>objects on some way, I'd prefer to build just a single btree.

I believe you can do what I do -- key this tree by hash string and let the 
string length be variable.  That way, you can mix sha1 and md5 hashes in the 
same tree.

OTOH, I agree that it would be good to recommend use of SHA1.

 - Carl

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