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a cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit (16-byte) output, now deprecated

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Is it secure to use MD5 to verify the integrity of small files (less than 15kb)?

I know that collision for MD5 has been documented since the 90s and that digital certificates based off of MD5 has been demonstrated to be completely compromised back in 2010 but how effective is MD5 in … I've been using SHA-256 on them but it would be much more convenient to be able to use MD5 instead. How secure would MD5 be as a hash digest for these small 15kb text files? …
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