Talk:MD5

What is the point of this? Most languages are going to have an MD5 function.

Perhaps the algorithm should actually be implemented in each. This would give a much better rosetta like comparison between languages, as it would involve more complicated structures than straight code blocks.

Someone asked for MD5 on the task request page and I looked up how to do it in Java. I couldn't really tell what was going on in the wikipedia explanation of the algorithm. If you know how to do the algorithm for real, then go for it. --Mwn3d 12:36, 28 November 2007 (MST)

Shouldn't this be...

...in a "Hashing" category, not encryption. The MD5 algorithm, although related to cryptography, is not an encryption function. The output of the MD5 function can not decrypted to yield the original plain text given an arbitrary cipher text (a.k.a hash).