Top "Cryptographic-hash-function" questions

A cryptographic hash function is a function that takes a string of bytes of variable length and returns a fixed-length digest such that it is extremely difficult to find two inputs that yield the same output or find the original input given an output.

What's the difference between the hash algorithms SHA-2 and SHA-3?

I know SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 are all part of the SHA-2 hash function family. But there is now …

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Why is it not possible to reverse a cryptographic hash?

Why can't you just reverse the algorithm like you could reverse a math function? How is it possible to make …

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MySQL MD5 and Java MD5 not equal

The next function in MySQL MD5( 'secret' ) generates 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69 I would like to …

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Hash 'hashcat': Token length exception

hashcat64.exe hashcat -m0 -a0 crackme.txt password.txt Device #1: Intel's OpenCL runtime(GPU only) is currently broken. We are …

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How to create encrypted hash passwords for drupal 7

After searching over internet I came to know that With drupal 7, password are no more encrypted through md5. What are …

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