Is MD5 less secure than SHA et. al. in a practical sense?
问题 I've seen a few questions and answers on SO suggesting that MD5 is less secure than something like SHA. My question is, Is this worth worrying about in my situation? Here's an example of how I'm using it: On the client side, I'm providing a "secure" checksum for a message by appending the current time and a password and then hashing it using MD5. So: MD5(message+time+password) . On the server side, I'm checking this hash against the message that's sent using my knowledge of the time it was