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Why is MD5 hash considered insecure?

April 26, 2017hash insecure MD5

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Why is MD5 hash considered insecure?

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A weakness in the MD5 cryptographic hash function allows the construction of different messages with the same MD5 hash. This is known as an MD5 “collision”. StartCom disallows the use of MD5 hash signatures for all end-user certificates. SHA1 or better should be used instead.