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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications
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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

by Daniel Li
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
20h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Picking a cryptographic hashing algorithm

Since MD5 violates the one-way constraint, we must pick a more suitable cryptographic hash function. There are a myriad of hashing algorithms available. Here's a list of some of the most popular ones: MD4, MD5, MD6, SHA1, SHA2 series (including SHA256, SHA512), SHA3 series (including SHA3-512, SHAKE256), RIPEMD, HAVAL, BLAKE2, RipeMD, WHIRLPOOL, Argon2, PBKDF2, and bcrypt.

MD5 and SHA-1 were extremely popular when they were introduced, and were seen as robust cryptographic hashing algorithms at the time, but have since been replaced by more modern cryptographic hash functions such as PBKDF2 and bcrypt.

Algorithms can become unsuitable due to the following factors:

  • Collisions can be engineered: Collisions ...
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