Name: Anonymous 2018-05-31 18:51
ITT we discuss web security.
A 2013 attack by Xie Tao, Fanbao Liu, and Dengguo Feng breaks MD5 collision resistance in 2^18 time. This attack runs in less than a second on a regular computer.[2]
MD5 is prone to length extension attacks.
It can still be used as a checksum to verify data integrity, but only against unintentional corruption.