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MD5 hashing is also used to verify the autheticity of a piece of data without having to actually encrypt the data. You do that computing the MD5 hash of the data with an additional shared secret element. This works pretty well.

Michael

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Re: Re: What is MD5 Hashing and Why is it Important?
by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 15, 2002 at 21:31 UTC
    This is also used to encrypt data, it's called hash chaining encryption and some of the Crypt:: modules use it.

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    perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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