The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithmhas publicly declared his software end-of-life and is "no longer considered safe" to use on commercial websites. This comes only a day after a ...

Are you in any way interested in checking the MD5 hash numbers of files on Windows 11/10 computers? If that’s a yes, then you need the help from a decent enough MD5 Hash Checker. What we’re going to ...

Did you download a large file? Or do you have a file that you have a suspicion about? The best way to ensure the file comes from a verified source is by measuring its checksum. A checksum is almost ...

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 ...

In 2009, while I was researching Surviving Cyberwar, I attended the COSAC security conference outside of Dublin for the first time. During an open session I posed this question to the attendees: “Can ...

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 ...

The Ubuntu Guide web site runs down how to turn your CDs/DVDs and folders into .iso disk images. The process even demonstrates how to create your own MD5 checksum files. This surprisingly simple ...

Suspected flaws in a computer algorithm have invalidated a fine issued by a speed camera in Australia. It turns out that a Sydney magistrate tossed out a speeding ticket after the Roads and Traffic ...

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...