Re: Re: Re: Re: Cookies & Encryption

Point taken. I was however speaking from an application programmer POV, which in this context i think validates my original statement.

I will go on to mention i'm not a technical wizard when its comes to math and crypto, and so your more technical definition is well recieved.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Cookies & Encryption by kappa (Chaplain) on Apr 16, 2002 at 14:28 UTC
This one is easy! Look, the result of applying Digest::MD5 has always 128 bits, no matter how large the original data was. And of course the number of different 128-bit strings in this world is way less than the number of different strings of any length! Hope, this will help you to understand. Notice, no wizardry involved :)))	[reply]