Having said that, your question lacks anything Perl specific. You've more chance of getting a useful answer in a more appropriate forum - md5 isn't language specific.

I agree with what Abigail-II said: you do have a better chance of getting a useful answer in another forum. However, what's the opinion of the Monks about OT posts to PM? I've always felt that one of the strengths of PM was not just the opinions regarding perl, but also the opinions regarding problem solving, sw design, experiences with X, etc.

Naturally it would be a shame to see PM flooded with non-perl noise and cease to become an excellent resource for perl programming... but does that mean we should exclude questions that aren't strictly related to the use of perl?

Also the following thread demonstrates that people here do enjoy sounding off about non-perl topics... I dunno if that reflects that Monks are chatty folks or something else.

Thoughts/recommendations? I recently did a writeup that was not strictly perl and was rewarded with 0 replies (as of 5pm EST yesterday), so it's certainly author beware. update: I got some replies after I went home. :) I just want to know if that kind of thing should be frowned upon (and those kinds of writeups not be approved by the Powers-That-Be).

AH

In reply to Re: Re: Why applying MD5 hash twice? by alienhuman
in thread Why applying MD5 hash twice? by huguei

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