Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

From the paper Fast Hashing of Variable-Length Text Strings (archived) by Peter K. Pearson with additional edits by jeblad (Dec 13, 2025). The core of the Pearson hash algorithm is fast execution on ...

As the digital economy accelerates and data security becomes a global priority, VEST Labs has officially unveiled its breakthrough innovation — VEST Hash, a next-generation cryptographic hash ...

Hashing transforms data into a fixed-length cryptographic fingerprint that ensures integrity and authenticity. Every block in a blockchain contains its own hash and the previous block’s hash, forming ...

Abstract: The integrity of evidence, a core principle of digital forensics, is essential for ensuring the reliability and admissibility of evidence in legal proceedings. Classical cryptographic hash ...

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According to @cryptohistory, an early long-distance communication system utilized a 5-bit encoding method (fire signals: high or low) to transmit the 25 Greek letters, sending one character at a time.

Return the populated Bloom filter. Initialize a bit array (Bloom filter) of size 1000. For each bigram, apply 15 hash functions (Fifteen_Hash_Function), which combine MAD5 and SHA256 hashes. a.

Abstract: From the early days of computing, passwords have been considered as the essential authentication method to protect accesses to computer systems and users. Due to their importance, ...