MD5 seriously broken (welcome to the “old news” segment)
http://www.cits.rub.de/MD5Collisions/ - best example yet of MD5 being broken for serious use as a cryptographic hash. OMFG! What’s the new hash for a new era? Looks like SHA1 is reasonably promising as a general usage hash, the way MD5 used to be.
June 20th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Of course, it remains fine as a hash for many purposes–caches, or for authentication of passwords when combined with a decent salt, for example; shame, though. It was nice that for such a long time one of the most widely-used hash functions was also cryptographically strong.