note 61880 added to function.crc32

I think nathanzadoks at yahoo dot co dot uk's function is
not very good for checksums - it does not make any sense to
build a md5 hash from a crc32 hash - MD5 (32Byte) is more
precise then CRC32 (4Byte), so the MD5-encoding would not
make sense. As PHP returns the MD5 hash in ASCII
representation already, you do not need to base64-encode it,
too. So a simple

md5($content)

or

sha1($content)

would be more precise and secure.
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Manual Page -- http:
//www.php.net/manual/en/function.crc32.php
Edit        -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=
edit+61880
Delete: added to the manual -- htt
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&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual
Delete: bad code            -- http://master.
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=yes&reason=bad+code
Delete: spam                -- http://master.php.
net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61880&report=yes
&reason=spam
Delete: useless             -- http://master.p
hp.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61880&report=
yes&reason=useless
Delete: non-english         -- http://mast
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ort=yes&reason=non-english
Delete: already in docs     -- http://
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;report=yes&reason=already+in+docs
Delete: other reasons       -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-
notes.php?action=delete+61880&report=yes
Reject      -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-
notes.php?action=reject+61880&report=yes
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I think nathanzadoks at yahoo dot co dot uk's function is
not very good for checksums - it does not make any sense to
build a md5 hash from a crc32 hash - MD5 (32Byte) is more
precise then CRC32 (4Byte), so the MD5-encoding would not
make sense. As PHP returns the MD5 hash in ASCII
representation already, you do not need to base64-encode it,
too. So a simple

md5($content)

or

sha1($content)

would be more precise and secure.

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