[j_86]

This is fairly old news.

MD5 hash's are not backward compatiable, and as described in the article, you may get the possibility that one string may hash into the same MD5 signature as a different string - this has always been the base, but is highly unlikely to happen.

26 letters in the alphabet - a md5 string of (12 or 16 characters? I can't remember) means there there are a HUGE number of possible hash keys.

BUT, not to mention, MD5 uses numbers 0 - 9. 10 digits, in any combination coupled with the 26 letters of any combination gives astronomical numbers of possible combinations.

V-bulletin goes on step further, to increase this randomness and thus reducing the odds even more, that the same key is genreated by using SALT.

Nothing is ever secure, but for we typical users, you don't get more secure realtranslation encryption as MD5. ( not to mention + SALT).