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Originally Posted by proc355
it's hashing not encryption; also, dont multi-hash things - it does nothing except chew resources - you want a salted hash
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Most of your comments were useless unlike the code he wrote. Honestly, commenting on coding convention and variable naming is just obnoxious.
The comment I quoted, however, irked me the most, especially since it was never replied to. Multi-hashing is actually very useful especially if you know how hashes are reversed. If you hash a hash with a salt, chances are you will have a more secure result string than had you just used a salted hash. You are correct though it is not encryption.
Also wasting resources? C'mon man. Don't post if you are just going to be making stuff up. An MD5 hash calculation on a 16 byte string is ridiculous to even consider a resource hog.