Apache...e::MD5(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Apache::Session::Generate::MD5 — bestie, this is the one that uses MD5 to cook up random object IDs ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Apache::Session::Generate::MD5;

$id = Apache::Session::Generate::MD5::generate();

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this module? It fulfills the ID generation interface of Apache::Session, no cap. Like, it's the girl that shows up and does the job the interface asked for. 💅

The IDs get generated using a two-round MD5 of a random number, the time since the epoch, the process ID, and the address of an anonymous hash. Yes bestie, all four of those, mixed together like a little smoothie of entropy. 🥤✨

The resultant ID number is highly entropic on Linux and other platforms that have good random number generators. But listen — you are encouraged to investigate the quality of your system's random number generator if you're using the generated ID numbers in a secure environment. Like, do your research before you trust it with something precious, fr fr. 🔍

This module can also examine session IDs to make sure they are, indeed, session ID numbers and not evil attacks. 😭 And the reader is encouraged to consider the effect of bogus session ID numbers in a system which uses these ID numbers to access disks and databases. That's not a vibe you want, bestie, think about it. 💀

This module takes one argument in the usual Apache::Session style. The argument is IDLength, and the value — between 0 and 32 — tells this module where to truncate the session ID. Without this argument, the session ID will be 32 hexadecimal characters long, equivalent to a 128-bit key. Iconic. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This module was written by Jeffrey William Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>. We stan. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Apache::Session

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okay that's the whole page bestie, love that for us 🎀 — this little gem is perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-19, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's giving absolutely iconic. byeee 💖🦋✨