The MD5 password hash algorithm is "no longer considered safe" by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million hashed LinkedIn passwords.

The algorithm in question, called MD5, is one of the standard choices that programmers use when creating digital signatures. But some research has suggested attacks on MD5 (though those attacks ...

MD5 is one of the most common algorithms used to measure file checksums. It often helps detect files that have been maliciously tampered with or distorted during transfers/downloads.

The MD5 algorithm has a new vulnerability: Google! Here’s a piece of news that will worry anyone interested in security (which should be pretty much everyone who reads Network World): A ...

Flame attackers' ability to forge a valid certificate for Windows Update should be a warning to companies to stop using the MD5 algorithm to issue security certificates.

Viber flipped the switch for end-to-end encryption on Wednesday, but experts worried it may have used the cryptographically insecure MD5 algorithm. In response, Viber said that it did not use MD5 ...

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 you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you'd be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still ...

Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm.

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 ...