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Re: Algorithm



Balakrishnan Kalidas forced the electrons to say:
>  Does anybody know how to generate an unique ID for a
> given 255 char(max) string. I need it urgently for my
> project.

md5 sums? The algorithm is very easy to implement. Or you can take the
code from many, many software that uses it. There is a command line
interface as well.

If you are writing proprietary code, I'd suggest implementing the
algorithm.

Read RFC 1321 at www.faqs.org.

Binand

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