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Recommended reading
Kamil Śliwak edited this page Jan 30, 2018
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An Introduction to Cryptographic Hash Functions
- Very short intro.
- Hashing functions, rainbow tables, salt
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An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes
- Brief explanation with command-line examples and diagrams.
- Hashing passwords, digital signatures, collisions, collision resistance, weaknessess in SHA-1 and MD5.
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Don’t Hash Secrets
- Hashing and salting. Why a hash on its own is not a good signature (you can easily get a hash of the original input with stuff added at the end). HMAC.
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Hash Collisions and the Birthday Attack
- Hash collisions, birthday paradox, finding two passwords that hash to the same value (birthday attack).