“…It is well known that MD5 hash collisions exist, although they have largely been forced to occur in the laboratory (Burr, 2006;Gutman, Naccache, & Palmer, 2005;McHugh, 2014;Wang, Feng, Lai, & Yu, 2004;Wang & Yu, 2005). No one has yet reported hash collisions occurring in "nature;" that is, there are no reports of finding two different files on a given disk drive having the same MD5 hash.…”