md5, sha1, etc are very handy tools for programmers to generate hashed strings from random or fixed keys. A lot of the times, we simply store these hashes directly into databases, setting the field data type as string, or use the hashes as filenames (handy for creating cache files) or as part of URL. While [...]
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