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Network Security
Oscar Carranza
Keller Graduate School of Management
Professor: Charles Pak
Best Use of MD5
MD5 stands for Message Digest algorithm 5, it replaced the old MD4 standard. The way MD5 works is that it takes a block of data and returns a fixed size hash value. It can be any data or any size but the resulting value will always be the same 32 digit hex.
Because the resulting code is always fixed, this becomes very useful when comparing or validating files after these have been transferred. After downloading large files you can use the hash value to verify the file you have downloaded is not different to the original one.