Calculate the MD5 hash of any text
Security Warning
MD5 is cryptographically broken and unsuitable for security purposes. Use SHA-256 or SHA-512 for password hashing, digital signatures, or security-critical applications. MD5 is acceptable only for non-security uses like checksums or cache keys.
Learn more about MD5 vulnerabilities →An MD5 hash is 128 bits, shown as 32 hexadecimal characters. Collisions can be produced in seconds, so MD5 must not protect anything an attacker could tamper with. It is still fine for detecting accidental corruption, deduplication and cache keys.
5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427emd5sum file.zip # Linux
md5 file.zip # macOSNot for security. MD5 collisions are easy to produce, so it must not be used for signatures, certificates or passwords. It is fine for checksums where nobody is trying to fool you.
Always 128 bits, shown as 32 hexadecimal characters, no matter how long the input is.
No. MD5 is a hash, not encryption. Websites that “decrypt” MD5 look the hash up in tables of precomputed common inputs.