Having said that, your question lacks anything Perl specific. You've more chance of getting a useful answer in a more appropriate forum - md5 isn't language specific.

While not Perl specific huguei's question is most certainly Perl related. For example tons of people writing web-apps (which he refers to Apache so probably his case as well) are using MD5 for sessions. I'm sure there are tons of other uses in Perl. Besides, there's not an "MD5 monks" that I'm aware of, and while there may be some place else that has the answer there are certainly plenty of experts here (yourself included) that have it as well and I don't see why it is any less valid.

Also the post is helpful to people like me who had no knowledge of this vulnerability

My 2 cents

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