Nuno Maduro on Nostr: great to see global functions like "md5" aren't getting deprecated in PHP 8.4; i've ...
great to see global functions like "md5" aren't getting deprecated in PHP 8.4; i've used them before, not for "security" reasons, but just to generate random hashes from a string for basic "checksum" purposes.
i think most people use it for "checksum" purposes too
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_4 
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