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    A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of n {\displaystyle...
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  • general and technical information for a number of cryptographic hash functions. See the individual functions' articles for further information. This article...
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  • other cryptographic primitives); in this case they are described as universal hash functions. Among the typical uses of non-cryptographic hash functions are...
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    derived from a hash function which takes a data input and returns a fixed length of bits. Although hash algorithms, especially cryptographic hash algorithms...
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  • In computer science and cryptography, Whirlpool (sometimes styled WHIRLPOOL) is a cryptographic hash function. It was designed by Vincent Rijmen (co-creator...
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  • This is a list of hash functions, including cyclic redundancy checks, checksum functions, and cryptographic hash functions. Adler-32 is often mistaken...
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  • In cryptography, cryptographic hash functions can be divided into two main categories. In the first category are those functions whose designs are based...
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    password, or a passphrase using a pseudorandom function (which typically uses a cryptographic hash function or block cipher). KDFs can be used to stretch...
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  • Hash-based cryptography is the generic term for constructions of cryptographic primitives based on the security of hash functions. It is of interest as...
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    of message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a secret cryptographic key. As with any MAC, it may be used to simultaneously...
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  • The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S...
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  • BLAKE is a cryptographic hash function based on Daniel J. Bernstein's ChaCha stream cipher, but a permuted copy of the input block, XORed with round constants...
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  • cryptography, a preimage attack on cryptographic hash functions tries to find a message that has a specific hash value. A cryptographic hash function...
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  • In cryptography, Tiger is a cryptographic hash function designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham in 1995 for efficiency on 64-bit platforms. The size of...
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  • The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm is a cryptographic hash function developed by Ronald Rivest in 1989. The algorithm is optimized for 8-bit computers....
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  • In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend...
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    output. The values returned by a hash function are called hash values, hash codes, (hash/message) digests, or simply hashes. The values are usually used to...
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  • Collision attack (redirect from HashDoS)
    In cryptography, a collision attack on a cryptographic hash tries to find two inputs producing the same hash value, i.e. a hash collision. This is in contrast...
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  • In cryptography, security level is a measure of the strength that a cryptographic primitive — such as a cipher or hash function — achieves. Security level...
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  • In cryptography, N-hash is a cryptographic hash function based on the FEAL round function, and is now considered insecure. It was proposed in 1990 in an...
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  • (SM3) is a cryptographic hash function, standardised for use in commercial cryptography in China. It was published by the National Cryptography Administration...
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    Merkle tree (redirect from Tiger-Tree Hash)
    In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every "leaf" node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data...
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  • known attacks against cryptographic hash functions. Note that not all entries may be up to date. For a summary of other hash function parameters, see comparison...
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  • SHA-1 (redirect from SHA-1 hash)
    SHA-1 function. In cryptography, SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is a hash function which takes an input and produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value known...
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  • MD5 (redirect from MD5 Hash)
    a cryptographic hash function; however it has been found to suffer from extensive vulnerabilities. It remains suitable for other non-cryptographic purposes...
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  • (or FNV) is a non-cryptographic hash function created by Glenn Fowler, Landon Curt Noll, and Kiem-Phong Vo. The basis of the FNV hash algorithm was taken...
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    top hash of an MD4 hash list to uniquely identify a file Cryptographic hash function List Clark, Liat. "Child sexual abuse 'hash lists' shared with internet...
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  • SHA-2 (category Cryptographic hash functions)
    SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and first published...
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  • hash function competition was an open competition held by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a new hash function...
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  • to non-cryptographic hash functions, such as CityHash;: 496  this can be used to prevent denial-of-service attacks against hash tables ("hash flooding")...
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