Can an MD5-hash begin with a zero?

Question

Can an MD5-hash begin with a zero? What about SHA-1?

Answer 1

This thread is pretty old now, but there are some very high & very low value hashes for SHA1 and MD5 here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171201071711/http://www.crysys.hu/hashgame/allrecord.php

One of those has 7 bytes of leading zeros.