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pasted it into https://www.md5online.org/md5-decrypt.html and got the ans

@Marwan1998
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so md5 is that weak?

@MoElaSec
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MoElaSec commented Nov 1, 2021

so md5 is that weak?

@Marwan1998 You shouldn't use SHA-1 or MD5 as both are considered insecure.

for MD5 long history of attacks/collisions, you can easily find online.
for SHA-1 read about:

  • SHAppening
  • SHAttered (first public collision)
  • Birthday-Near-Collision Attack

@LunarMiolk
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There are some super cool things you can do with exploiting hash collisions, though!

Hashquines are probably one of the more 🤯

Here's a recently published one that I thought was super cool:
https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1573218394358386688?s=20&t=Fbfvek788mosD7K0AKV8zw

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Further reading: https://www.rogdham.net/2017/03/12/gif-md5-hashquine.en

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