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Timeline for MD5 Algorithms in web development

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Dec 3, 2013 at 23:32 comment added CodesInChaos The attacks on MD5 are collision attacks, not first pre-image attacks. They don't apply to password hashing. In particular you can't compute the input given the output faster than guessing the input. So SHA-2 offers little advantage over MD5 here.
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