Hash algorithms are used widely for cryptographic applications that ensure the authenticity of digital documents, such as digital signatures and message authentication codes.

Hashing algorithms are a vital information security tool, and used to authenticate messages, as well as digital signatures and documents.

Strong, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Security Hash algorithms turn a digital message into a short message digest for applications such as digital signatures.

Hash Function: A computational algorithm that transforms an input (or 'message') into a fixed-size string of characters, commonly known as a digest, structured to be computationally infeasible to ...

It produces a 160-bit message digest, which if cryptographically perfectly secure means that it would take a brute force guessing attack 2 159 tries on average to crack a hash.

An algorithm that transforms a given amount of data (the "message") into a fixed number of digits, known as the "hash," "digest" or "digital fingerprint." Hash functions are a fundamental ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week opened a competition to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm, a tool that converts a file, message or block of data to a ...

The MD5 password hash algorithm is "no longer considered safe" by the original software developer, a day after the leak of more than 6.4 million hashed LinkedIn passwords.