[Filligree]

MD5 as a cryptographic hash is thoroughly shredded, yes.

It's still fine for non-cryptographic purposes, except that it's far slower than e.g. CRC.

[hueving]

That would be news if that were the case. The preimage resistance for MD5 was pretty strong last time I looked: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/13303/is-md5-secon...