Viber flipped the switch for end-to-end encryption on Wednesday, but experts worried it may have used the cryptographically insecure MD5 algorithm. In response, Viber said that it did not use MD5 ...

Flame attackers' ability to forge a valid certificate for Windows Update should be a warning to companies to stop using the MD5 algorithm to issue security certificates.

The algorithm in question, called MD5, is one of the standard choices that programmers use when creating digital signatures. But some research has suggested attacks on MD5 (though those attacks ...

Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm.

The MD5 algorithm has a new vulnerability: Google! Here’s a piece of news that will worry anyone interested in security (which should be pretty much everyone who reads Network World): A ...

MD5 is widely used in secured communications devices for applications such as keyed authentication, Mittra said. Although there are open-source cores for other encryption algorithms, Pancham, which ...

A more resilient spin off of the MD5 algorithm has been deemed unsafe by its developer. Poul-Henning Kamp designed the then resource-intensive MD5 crypt algorithm which would provide better ...

If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you'd be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are still ...

Frederic Jacobs, a security researcher who previously worked on Signal and is currently a student at the EPFL, pointed out that Viber may be using an MD5 algorithm, widely considered to be ...