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Ask HN: Is MD5 reliable for anything other than checksum?

by sauravt on 2/17/19, 12:41 AM with 2 comments

• by nabla9 on 2/17/19, 12:54 AM

  MD5 is completely cryptographically broken, so no.

  (Collisions, single block collisions and chosen-prefix collision can be found very fast)

• by chrism238 on 2/17/19, 1:56 AM

  MD5 is still not reversible, so it still has many uses.