Researchers from the INRIA institute in France have devised several attacks which prove that the continued support for MD5 in cryptographic protocols is much more dangerous than previously believed.

Verisign is kicking MD5 to the curb after researchers demonstrated the flawed algorithm allows hackers to duplicate an SSL certficate and steal information from users.

When Oracle publishes its next quarterly patch update in April, the company will begin treating JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as unsigned.

Researchers from the INRIA institute in France have devised several attacks that prove the continued support for MD5 in cryptographic protocols is much more dangerous than previously believed.

Point to security flaw in MD5 hashing algorithm used for digital signatures Security experts are warning against the use of a flawed hashing algorithm, MD5, for digital signatures to store data ...

Microsoft released two optional security updates Tuesday to block digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop ...

Luckily for Java users, the JDK contains nice implementations of the SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms, which are altogether more secure than MD5. So (note to self): there’s no excuse for using MD5 ...

Another researcher Rogdham later provided "GIF-MD5-hashquine" source code on GitHub, enabling just about anyone to generate such GIFs while using MD5 as the choice of hash.

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