diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0cf1901b..d35e9831 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1593,12 +1593,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "digest",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "md5"
-version = "0.8.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ae960838283323069879657ca3de837e9f7bbb4c7bf6ea7f1b290d5e9476d2e0"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
 version = "2.8.0"
@@ -1827,7 +1821,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "image",
  "infer",
  "jsonwebtoken",
- "md5",
+ "md-5",
  "mimalloc",
  "mime_guess",
  "mockall",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 65d736d3..95c090ee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ dotenvy = "0.15.7"
 moka = { version = "0.12", features = ["future", "sync"] }
 http-range-header = "0.4"
 image = { version = "0.25", default-features = false, features = ["jpeg", "png", "gif", "webp"] }
-md5 = "0.8.0"
+md-5 = "0.10"
 sha2 = "0.10.9"
 blake3 = { version = "1.8.3", features = ["rayon"] }
 hex = "0.4.3"
diff --git a/src/infrastructure/services/chunked_upload_service.rs b/src/infrastructure/services/chunked_upload_service.rs
index cfd94491..c8311487 100644
--- a/src/infrastructure/services/chunked_upload_service.rs
+++ b/src/infrastructure/services/chunked_upload_service.rs
@@ -496,7 +496,10 @@ impl ChunkedUploadService {
         if let Some(ref expected_checksum) = checksum {
             let data_clone = data.clone(); // Bytes::clone is O(1) — just an Arc increment
             let actual_checksum =
-                tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || format!("{:x}", md5::compute(&data_clone)))
+                tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || {
+                    use md5::{Md5, Digest};
+                    format!("{:x}", Md5::digest(&data_clone))
+                })
                     .await
                     .map_err(|e| format!("MD5 checksum task failed: {e}"))?;