Java Security - Re: MessageDigest Length

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Re: MessageDigest Length

Roedy Green

2008-02-24, 7:34 pm

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:07:47 +0100, Robert Kochem
<robert@mailueberfall.de> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>If you want a deterministic variable length output generated by a given
>input you should look for a PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) using
>it's seed as input value.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/digest.html
why you would not want to do that.
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