Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does md5 really offer much in terms of protection?

can you STFW?

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkkQsQ65FTlkBrTVXNyoA?p=does+md5+offer+any+protection&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&x=wrt


> 
> The algorithm is really well known.

do you work for microsoft? strength of a crypto algorithm has nothing
to do with whether it's definition known or not.

security through obscrurity ... isn't.

> 
> I would like to hear your thoughts and poosible alternatives (mcrypt?)

an alternative might be to first STFM?:

http://php.net/sha1 (also read the user notes)

> 
> R. 
> 

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