Strong, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Security Hash algorithms turn a digital message into a short message digest for applications such as digital signatures.

A cryptographic hash function is a mathematical algorithm that takes an input (or 'message') and returns a fixed-length string of characters, which is typically a sequence of alphanumeric symbols.

Hash Function: A computational algorithm that transforms an input (or 'message') into a fixed-size string of characters, commonly known as a digest, structured to be computationally infeasible to ...

Cryptographic Techniques Understanding SSL requires an understanding of cryptographic algorithms, message digest functions (aka. one-way or hash functions), and digital signatures. These ...

Hashing is a cryptographic process that makes it harder for attackers to decrypt stored passwords, if used correctly.

Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature.

Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week opened a competition to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm, a tool that converts a file, message or block of data to a ...