Hi Houston,

>Good to see you join the 'heated' debate!

Well, I'm certainly not joining a heated debate, just making a few remarks here and there... ;)

>or how I've used MD5 to implement authentication

I hope you don't think that MD5 is secure:

http://www.theneoproject.com/main.asp?PageRequest=ABOUTMD5
ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/cryptobytes/crypto2n2.pdf


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Christof