changeset 31251:24247d13a44b stable

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.
author Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com>
date Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:00:05 -0400
parents 96ad887ae4f8
children e78f6e2aa807 e5e35410da90
files doc/interpreter/system.txi
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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)