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Hi - I'm using Oracle 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on a W2K platform.
I read in this newsgroup a mention of the DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT but I wondered if someone could answer a question about it.
First off I read that it is capable of creating MD5 digests but the only doco I can find (on the Oracle site relating to 9i) doesn't mention that. Is this something I should try to use or is it not likely to stick around ? Is there anywhere where the MD5 is documented ?
Secondly I have an implementation of the MD5 algorithm in VBScript/ASP which outputs a 32 bit hash. Ideally I would like to create MD5 digests in VBS and compare them with ones on a table produced by the DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT. Trouble is what little I have read suggests that the DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT MD5 outputs a 16 bit string. Is this completely true or can you request the output size ?
One last thing. I don't know much about how MD5 works so if some of the above is a bit silly - that's why ;-)
Thanks
Richard Shea. Received on Thu Mar 21 2002 - 20:52:13 CST