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Is using the md5 hashing algorithm as method for authorization in an HTTP POST request unsafe?

I am creating a page on a website that will show a user some authorized information from another website, and that website uses a combination of the user's user-number and a secret passphrase hashed ...
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Do Client Nonces enhance the security of HTTP Digest Auth?

As far as I understand the answer at http://security.stackexchange.com/a/3024/13447, client nonces are meant to prevent attackers from amortizing the costs of brute-force hash computations by being ...
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Shall I need to use MD5 algorithm in both JavaScript and PHP for login authentication?

I have a login form with username and password. I post this form data to a PHP file. For security reasons I want to encrypt my password in the database and network. Now I have done now following ...