What is MD5 or Message Digest 5 Algorithm
We are getting many requests through emails, messages and on social media people are very much confused asking about how there passwords gets encrypted , and how does this encryption works, what are the algorithms used behind this encryption. So here i am going to tell you about one of the most widely used algorithm used for encryption known as MD5 or Message Digest Algorithm Before we proceed to MD5 i want to tell you something about Cryptographic Hashing. Cryptographic Hashing MD5 stands for M essage D igest algorithm 5, and was invented by celebrated US cryptographer Professor Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace the old MD4 standard. MD5 is simply the name for a type of cryptographic hashing function Ron came up with, way back in ’91. The idea behind cryptographic hashing is to take an arbitrary block of data and return a fixed-size “hash” value. It can be any data, of any size but the hash value will always be fixed. Cryptograp...