So, what is going on that the CIA is using the MD5 hash? Basically, this means that someone somewhere wants to something to be altered that has an md5 hash, and either this branch of the CIA is the target, or the impact of the effort reached and influenced them somehow. - the cia could be watching, like a honeypot in your own systems - the nsa or such could be infiltrating the cia - the cia could be blindly following very old norms out of chance - security businesses could be planning to take over the govnment - foreign militaries could have been psyoping american military research - cia employees could have been planning to take over their government it could be anything. but whatever it is, it seems important to understand what. who, in 2013, was using _better_ hashes than md5?