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My intent isn't to bat for MD5, really. But since you asked me, I'll point out that MD5 is actually not that bad if you want a deterministic string of randomly
by aston 19y ago
My intent isn't to bat for MD5, really. But since you asked me, I'll point out that MD5 is actually not that bad if you want a deterministic string of randomly distributed bits. If you don't need all 128 bits, nobody's forcing you to keep the extra ones. That said, you might as well use SHA1.
- tptacek 19y agoFor what it's worth, almost any random number generator is better than MD5 at giving a deterministic random bit string, given a seed. You might start with OpenBSD arc4random.