Elegy for the MD5 Hashing Algorithm

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Elegy for the MD5 hashing algorithm is a work exploring the algorithmic retirement of the omonimous hashing function.

The work started as a project to create a rythmic generator based on the output of the MD5 algorithm, yet while working on it I discovered that the algorithm itself has been deprecated, read retired, in 2010. The discoveries made me reflect on the. lifecycle of algorithms, and the fact that the MD5 hashing will probably become a dead algorithm in the coming years. Dead in the sense that no one will use it anymore.

And so this project re-imagines the algorithm as an orchester conductor and composer, writing the music to for its own retirement, read deprecation.