Hashing Algorithms
Have a look at some popular hashing algorithms.
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MD5
I often see the MD5 hashing algorithm used incorrectly. And while most databases support it by default, MD5 has been mathematically proven to be insecure. Given MD5, it is trivially easy to produce collisions on modern hardware. We’ve already seen it produce collisions earlier.
One of the most notable examples occurred in 2005. Researchers were able to generate collisions in MD5 checksums using a laptop. The significance of this is that it doesn’t take a $200k beast of a server to break MD5, just any old laptop, and that was in 2005. In 2005 people, that was like 100 ...