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.

hash ("CoinDesk rocks") => 7ae26e64679abd1e66cfe1e9b93a9e85hash ("CoinDesk rocks!") => 6b1f6fde5ae60b2fe1bfe50677434c88 Hash functions in bitcoin ...

Google today announced its plans to sunset the SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm as Chrome uses it in certificate signatures for HTTPS. The company hopes to start the process later this month ...

Kilo hash per second (Kh/s): 1,000 hashes per second, slow (compared with other rates) Mega hash per second (Mh/s): One million hashes per second. Generated by a GPU or CPU. Giga hash per second ...

NIST issued a Call for a New Cryptographic Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Family in a Federal Register Notice on Nov. 2, 2007. The announcement specifies the submission requirements, the minimum ...

On 2 October an algorithm called Keccak was named the winner of the Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3) competition, run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg ...