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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook
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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

by Emmanuel Tsukerman
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

Measuring the similarity between two strings

To check whether two files are identical, we utilize standard cryptographic hash functions, such as SHA256 and MD5. However, at times, we would like to also know to what extent two files are similar. For that purpose, we utilize similarity hashing algorithms. The one we will be demonstrating here is ssdeep.

First, let's see how to use ssdeep to compare two strings. This can be useful to detect tampering in a text or script and also plagiarism.

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