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Blockchain across Oracle
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Blockchain across Oracle

by Robert van Molken, Sven Bernhardt, Francisco Arturo Viveros
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
14h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Hashes

Until now, we have explored the concepts that make up a transaction and how you can send transactions yourself. One of these concepts is that transactions are signed. When a transaction is signed, it generates a hash or digital signature that is based on the content of the transaction. The hash verifies that the data sent in a transaction is not compromised or has not changed during its travel.

A hash is calculated by executing a hash function, which is called hashing. Before I go into the detail of the hash functions that are used within different blockchains, I'm first going to take you through the concept of such functions. A hash function takes any input data, and produces an output, which, based on the algorithm used, has a different ...

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ISBN: 9781788474290