MD5

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The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value. MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function MD4, and was specified in 1992 as RFC 1321. Historically it was widely used as a cryptographic hash function. By the early 21st century, due to low security strength and vulnerabilities, it became unusable for cryptographic applications. MD5 can still be used for non-cryptographic purposes like calculation of a checksum to verify data integrity against unintentional corruption. or to calculate a partition for a key in a partitioned database, due to relatively low computational requirements.

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