Re: MessageDigest Length

sean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 schrieb:

> Does anyone know if there is a way of setting the length of the hashed
> value returned from a message digest?

Sorry, but this does not make sense to me. Each digest algorithm has a
specified output length, e.g. MD5 128-Bit, SHA-1 160bit ...
Truncating this output may result in collisions and extending the output
is
also not destined.

If you want a deterministic variable length output generated by a given
input you should look for a PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) using
it's seed as input value.

Robert