A widely used cryptographic hash function producing a 128-bit digest, once common for checksums and password storage but now considered cryptographically broken because deliberate collisions, two different inputs sharing the same digest, can be constructed efficiently.
Facts
Core PrincipleProduces a 128-bit hash value from input data. 1 Connections
In Field
Invented
Ron Rivest designed the MD5 hash function in 1991 as a successor to his earlier MD4.
Sources
1. MD5, Wikipedia
History and cryptanalysis
When analytic work indicated that MD5's predecessor MD4 was likely to be insecure, Rivest designed MD5 in 1991 as a secure replacement.
Introduction
The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value.
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