The output of the md5(), sha1() and sha256() generators is misleading about faker HOT 4 OPEN

Seems to me that there is no need to use bin2hex(). random_bytes($bytes) returns a raw string of the desired lenght and does a better job.

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random_bytes($bytes) returns a raw string of the desired lenght and does a better job.

The functions return hexadecimal characters, thus the output from random_bytes() needs to be hex encoded.

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The functions return hexadecimal characters, thus the output from random_bytes() needs to be hex encoded.

I don't see why.
Miscellaneous::md5, Miscellaneous::sha1 and Miscellaneous::sha256 return hexadecimal characters independently of their parameter/input

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The bin2hex would replace the call to the hash function. Actually hashing is not necessary, the output is indistinguishable anyway.

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