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> MD5 was never meant to be used for crypto - just validation.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Quoting from the author of MD5 in the RFC specifying it (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1321):

"The MD5 algorithm is intended for digital signature applications, where a large file must be 'compressed' in a secure manner before being encrypted with a private (secret) key under a public-key cryptosystem such as RSA."



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