MD5 is dead

Posted on 2005-06-15 by Panayotis

As shown in MD5 Collisions, it is (relatively) easy to construct 2 documents that have the same MD5 hash. Which means, that you should not trust MD5 as a digital signature.

[via me and mostly libre software]

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