December 31, 2023 Average reading time: 11 minutes. Recently I came across a puzzling fact: the International Criminal Court hashes electronic evidence with MD51. What’s wrong with that? Well, MD5 is badly broken. So broken that experts have been saying for over a decade that “no one should be using MD5 anymore.” Given the wide variety of better alternatives, using MD5 today makes no sense. And more puzzling: it’s not just the International Criminal Court using MD5. Apparently, the entire Americ...