What does MD5 do?
What does MD5 do? Message Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) is a cryptographic hash algorithm that can be used to create a 128-bit string value from an arbitrary length string. MD5 is most commonly used to verify the integrity of files. However, it is also used in other security protocols and applications such as SSH, SSL, and IPSec. Can MD5 be cracked? MD5 is considered broken, not because you can get back the original content from the hash, but because with work, you can craft two messages that hash to the same hash. You cannot un-hash an MD5 hash. What is...