Password cracking 101 - MD5 is broken! MD5 (Message-Digest Algorithm 5) is a widely known cryptographic hash function developed by Ronald Rivest in 1991, which produces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value, typically represented as a 32-character hexadecimal number. It was originally designed to verify data integrity by generating a unique digital fingerprint of input data, ensuring that even small changes in the input produce significantly different hash outputs. However, MD5 is now considered crypto