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There are an awful lot of md5 digests - so, even with an insane number of users it is highly unlikely they would have a collision. Hell; at work we generate ins

by ErrantX 16y ago

There are an awful lot of md5 digests - so, even with an insane number of users it is highly unlikely they would have a collision. Hell; at work we generate insane numbers of hashes and it took us quite a while, and a large dataset to find a collision :-)

gfodor 16y ago
Nevermind the fact that if the gods did cause such a collision to occur it wouldn't exactly be the end of the world. (And the accessibility of md5 more than makes up for this consequence.)
to 16y ago
but why md5 when there are better alternatives? not to speak about the issues with OP
- philfreo 16y ago
  because it's very simple for anyone to build an app that uses Gravatar since md5 is probably the most well-known hashing function.