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Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition
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Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

by Brian Russell, Drew Van Duren
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Hashes

Cryptographic hashes are used in a variety of security functions for their ability to represent an arbitrarily large message with a small sized, unique thumbprint (the hash). They have the following properties:

  • They are designed not to disclose any information about the original data that was hashed (this is called resistance to first pre-image attacks)
  • They are designed not to allow two different messages to have the same hash (this is called resistance to second pre-image attacks and collisions)
  • They produce a very random-looking value (the hash)

The following image denotes an arbitrary chunk of data D being hashed into H(D). H(D) is a small, fixed size (depending on the algorithm in use); from it, one cannot (or should not be ...

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ISBN: 9781788625821