# HG changeset patch # User Arun Giridhar # Date 1664715605 14400 # Node ID 24247d13a44b6c50ed6a9d43a5af02195061ef1c # Parent 96ad887ae4f8faaa6057a207c68bb1d3fa495123 doc: Minor wording change to hashing documentation system.txi: Remove implication that MD5 and SHA1 are cryptographically suitable hash functions, since both have been deprecated for cryptographic applications for 10 to 15 years now. diff -r 96ad887ae4f8 -r 24247d13a44b doc/interpreter/system.txi --- a/doc/interpreter/system.txi Wed Sep 28 17:00:43 2022 -0400 +++ b/doc/interpreter/system.txi Sun Oct 02 09:00:05 2022 -0400 @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ Octave supplies the @code{hash} function to calculate hash values of strings and files, the latter in combination with the @code{fileread} -function. The @code{hash} function supports the most common used -cryptographic hash functions, namely MD5 and SHA-1. +function. The @code{hash} function supports many commonly used hash +methods. @DOCSTRING(hash)