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Ask HN: Is MD5 reliable for anything other than checksum?

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nabla9
MD5 is completely cryptographically broken, so no.

(Collisions, single block collisions and chosen-prefix collision can be found very fast)

chrism238
MD5 is still not reversible, so it still has many uses.