Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two ...

1) It is trivial for someone to cause a collision (in fact effectively indefinitely many) with other inputs they control. 2) It's almost certainly not too hard for someone motivated to generate ...

Security pros often ask about the weaknesses of the Message-Digest version 5 algorithm (MD5) and whether it should still be used. MD5 is a cryptographic one-way hash function that produces a value ...

Can you crack a Cisco IOS MD5 password hash? [I'm in beautiful Ottawa this week. All the locals kept telling me how beautiful it was today, since it was nearly Spring like with temps almost at 0 ...

The old and insecure MD5 hashing function hasn’t been used to sign SSL/TLS server certificates in many years, but continues to be used in other parts of encrypted communications protocols, including ...

Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop ...