On 2023-04-11, at 3:32 PM, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tim,
Cleartext is faster than MD5, and only barely less-secure.
If security is a priority, you might prefer SHA2 in the external cryptography package.
In this particular case the only bit I was interested in was Andreas' comment and whether we could do better now - and thus remove the comment. I suspect there is some interesting work that could be done to use these newer encryptions in the Web* classes.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: SEXI: Sign EXtend Integer