MD5 is widely used in secured communications devices for applications such as keyed authentication, Mittra said. Although there are open-source cores for other encryption algorithms, Pancham, which ...

The MD5 and SHA-1 algorithms are known to computer scientists as hash functions. They take all kinds of input, from an e-mail message to an operating-system kernel, and generate what's supposed to ...

Microsoft also noted that most of the certificate authority vendors that issue digital certificates have abandoned MD5 and upgraded to the more secure SHA-1 algorithm.

The MD5 algorithm is fairly broken, but fortunately for us (and the rest of the world), SHA-1 is not as broken (yet). Researchers have discovered something akin to the first vulnerability (the ...

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Over a quarter of all the major content management systems (CMSs) use the old and outdated MD5 hashing scheme as the default for securing and storing user passwords.

By then, the world had already seen firsthand how damaging such attacks could be when nation-sponsored hackers used a collision on the also-weak MD5 algorithm to hijack Microsoft's Windows Update ...