Now that you know the importance of random numbers in cryptography and how to generate them, let’s look at one of the pillars of cryptography. In Chapter 2, I mentioned the four pillars of modern cryptography: cryptography, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. In this chapter, we explore integrity and authentication by looking at the various hashing and authenticated hashing operations available in .NET. Let’s start with integrity and hashing.
Hashing and Integrity
A hash function in cryptography is an algorithm that takes ...
