This page is a translated version of the page MD5 and the translation is 50% complete.

MediaWiki在个别地方使用MD5哈希将大目录分散为基于MD5哈希标题的子目录。

MD5不再是一个安全的加密哈希算法(推荐使用SHA1以及其他更好的算法来进行加密的任务,推荐不使用MD5)。

But MD5 remains a wellknown good hashing function for splitting long lists into sublists (even though SHA1 would be equally fast and would offer a slightly better statistic distribution).

See also