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To be precise, while MD5 has been 'broken' in the sense of not meeting its design goals for a long time, and there are now a number of scenarios where attackers can create pairs of files with the same MD5, it is not yet practically possible to create a collision for any arbitrary file (such as jquery.js) on demand. That would be the total 'preimage vulnerability' as mentioned at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Preimage_vulnerability

MD5 should absolutely not be used for this content-identification purpose or any other new code... and wise designers haven't been using it for 10+ years. I'm just mentioning this to be precise about the current state of its proven weaknesses.

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