<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050224191820/http://cataclysm.cx/wip/digest-md5-crash.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20050224191820/http://cataclysm.cx/wip/digest-md5-crash.html</a> states <br><br><ol><li>Create a string of the form "username:realm:password". Call this string X.</li>
<li>Compute the 16 octet MD5 hash of X. Call the result Y.</li><li>etc etc...<br></li></ol>im stuck on number two. according to another post i read, i either<br><br>1) should not use md5 at all or else<br>2) hex encode, then convert to 16 octet<br>
<br>id like a clarification of this, and if possible a solution i could implement (php if possible). any help would be much appreciated!<br><br><br>