Danbooru

What does MD5 stand for?

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Like what the title say, what does that stand for? I noticed them on pictures that haven't been approved in three days and wondered if it meant anything. They're usually followed by a series of letters and alphabets, all of which seem to have no meaning to me.

BTW, shouldn't be a SQSA somewhere? It would make it a lot easy to ask simple questions within having to make a new thread every time.

Updated by Tieria

RaisingK said:
You ask the meaning of MD5 and then throw in a "SQSA". I hate you.

Well sorry. Maybe the better action was to throw down a SQSA thread first then ask my question. You could treat this as an SQSA thread for now on if you like.

Mr_GT said:
Well sorry. Maybe the better action was to throw down a SQSA thread first then ask my question. You could treat this as an SQSA thread for now on if you like.

WHAT THE FUCK IS "SQSA"? South Queensland Sabot Association? THEN IT'S HUGELY OFF-TOPIC AND YOU SHOULD GET BANNED FOR IT.

This was one of those esoteric things either haduki or LaC had requested that's probably of no use to anyone else. I guess it was useful back when deleted posts were actually deleted but I'm not sure how useful it is now. Can I get rid of it?

Does it do any harm? We still have actually deleted pics from before, and having an MD5 handy helps with crawling the site without generating unnecessary traffic. Is *one* question about it such a big deal? If so, you could just link it to a wikipedia article on MD5 or something.

albert said:
This was one of those esoteric things either haduki or LaC had requested that's probably of no use to anyone else. I guess it was useful back when deleted posts were actually deleted but I'm not sure how useful it is now. Can I get rid of it?

Wouldn't MD5 be the most effective way to detect duplicates? CRC32 is not reliable as the space is too little, and it'll run into collision too quickly. Where as MD5 is more unique and have a lesser chance of collision.

I think albert just meant removing the md5 hash from the banner above deleted posts, not in general. I would agree, since that is useless. If for some reason you need the hash of a deleted post you can just use the post API.

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