Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in Java: Creating and Programming Advanced Algorithms with Java SE 17 LTS and Jakarta EE 10

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S. L. Nita, M. I. MihailescuCryptography and Cryptanalysis in Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8105-5_8

8. Hash Functions

Stefania Loredana Nita¹   and Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

In information security, hash functions are an important cryptographic tool. They have applications in a wide range of use cases, such as securing passwords in a database, securing authentication, and maintaining message integrity.

In a few words, a hash function is a compression mathematical function that takes an input with any length and converts it into a string with a fixed length. The input can be almost anything such as text or different types of files. ...