Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and ... But a researcher has generated an image that visibly contains its own MD5 hash.

The Ubuntu Guide web site runs down how to turn your CDs/DVDs and folders into .iso disk images. The process even demonstrates how to create your own MD5 checksum files.This surprisingly simple ...

Applications . Cryptocurrency: Cryptographic hash functions are widely used in cryptocurrencies to pass transaction information anonymously.For example, Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 cryptographic hash ...

The MD5 password hash algorithm is "no longer considered safe" by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million hashed LinkedIn passwords.

Identify any certificate or certificate chain using MD5. In particular, check for TLS/SSL server or client certificates. Rapid7 NeXpose scans for this vulnerability.

"So I guess the message to take away here is that MD5 is well and truly broken," McHugh wrote in a blog post headlined How I created two images with the same MD5 hash. "Whilst the two images have ...

UPDATE Wednesday 3:40pm ET: Specifically, the company is yanking support for the MD5 hash function associated with password authentication. For nearly a decade, that function has been dubbed as ...

Verisign's announcement comes a day after security researchers from the U.S., the Netherlands and Switzerland presented findings for an exploitable vulnerability in the MD5 cryptographic hash ...

In 2004 and 2007, cryptographers published research showing that the once-common MD5 hash function suffers weaknesses that could allow attackers to create these "collisions." ...

We accomplished it by replacing the MD5 hash with SHA-1, which was on our roadmap for January anyway, after our freeze period opened. Freeze periods are negotiable, so we made an exception," responded ...