The MD5 Com Component creates an RFC1321 compliant MD5
string from a string of text or file content, The MD5
algorithm takes as input a string of arbitrary length
and produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint"
or "message digest" of the input string. It is
conjectured that it is computationally infeasible to
produce two messages having the same message digest,
or to produce any message having a given prespecified
target message digest. The MD5 algorithm is intended
for digital signature applications, where a large file
must be "compressed" in a secure manner before being
encrypted with a private (secret) key under a public-
key cryptosystem such as RSA. In essence, MD5 is a way
to verify data integrity, and is much more reliable
than checksum and many other commonly used methods.

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