Pat Farrell <pfarrell@nospam.com> writes:

>julissa.leones@booomail.com wrote:
>> What encription algorithm should i use for replacing the md5 for
>> hasing?

>SHA, depending on the security needed, SHA1 may be fine
>if not SHA256
>source code and test vectors are readily availble.

Because sha1 is closely based on MD5 it is no longer trusted.
sha256 is recommended. Despite similar names, the algorithm is very
different as I understand.