February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 25m
English
book
Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition
by Daniel W. Dieterle, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Hashing algorithms
If the result of a process is always the same length irrespective of the amount of data provided, you may be facing a hashing function. To determine which function, you can use the length of the resulting value:
| Function | Length | Example, hash ("Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux") |
| MD5 | 16 bytes | fbdcd5041c96ddbd82224270b57f11fc |
| SHA-1 | 20 bytes | e8dd62289bcff206905cf269c06692ef7c6938a0 |
| SHA-2 (256) | 32 bytes | dbb5195ef411019954650b6805bf66efc5fa5fef4f80a5f4afda702154ee07d3 |
| SHA-2 (512) | 64 bytes |
6f0b5c34cbd9d66132b7d3a4484f1a9af02965904de38e3e3c4e66676d9 48f20bd0b5b3ebcac9fdbd2f89b76cfde5b0a0ad9c06bccbc662be420b877c080e8fe |
Notice how the preceding examples represent each byte in a hexadecimal codification using ...
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