What does cryptographic hash function actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypt… ...

RSA and hashing are two cryptographic functions that are widely used together. RSA provides the encryption using a public and private key, and hashing creates a binary fingerprint. For example, in ...

For more than six years, the SHA1 cryptographic hash function underpinning Internet security has been at death's door. Now it's officially dead, thanks to the submission of the first known ...

Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature.

How do I change the hashing function being used for shadow passwords?I've been searching for nearly an hour and must not be using the correct terminology. I can find answers for Solars & BSD, but ...