If you're doing it for detecting dupes then md5 is overkill, a decent hash from FastHash will do with a sizeable output. Work out the birthday problem probability of collision you are willing to ...

Underscoring just how broken the widely used MD5 hashing algorithm is, a software engineer racked up just 65 cents in computing fees to replicate the type of attack a powerful nation-state used in ...

Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm. The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep ...

I love seeing Google SEO related questions I've never seen before and this one, I never saw before. Does Google decode md5 hash values in URLs to extract hidden keywords within them for image search ...

Cambridge University researcher Steven Murdoch successfully used Google to help crack a password used by an attacker who had hacked into his blog a few weeks ago and created a user account. After he ...

WeChat, the popular messaging app operated by Tencent, uses various MD5 hash indexes to censor content in real-time, according to findings released by Canadian research group Citizen Lab on Monday.

It is always important to verify whether the large file you downloaded is the file you expected to download or not. This is because files may change in some way from the original while downloading.

In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...