If you're using an md5 password from /etc/shadow, you shouldn't be. Those md5 hashes are seeded, which is why they're different every time. Instead, try echo'ing your password through md5sum (or md5 ...
Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm. The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep ...
Cambridge University researcher Steven Murdoch successfully used Google to help crack a password used by an attacker who had hacked into his blog a few weeks ago and created a user account. After he ...
Security pros often ask about the weaknesses of the Message-Digest version 5 algorithm (MD5) and whether it should still be used. MD5 is a cryptographic one-way hash function that produces a value ...
Some of the projects that use MD5 as the default method for storing user passwords include WordPress, osCommerce, SuiteCRM, miniBB, SugarCRM, CMS Made Simple, MantisBT, Phorum, Observium, and X3cms.