Mastering Cryptographic Hash Functions for Data Security

Learn about cryptographic hash functions in ensuring secure communication and protection of sensitive information, including ...
PC World

Continued support for MD5 endangers widely used cryptographic protocols

The old and insecure MD5 hashing function hasn’t been used to sign SSL/TLS server certificates in many years, but continues to be used in other parts of encrypted communications protocols, including ...
CSOonline

Anyone up for Cisco password cracking?

Can you crack a Cisco IOS MD5 password hash? [I'm in beautiful Ottawa this week. All the locals kept telling me how beautiful it was today, since it was nearly Spring like with temps almost at 0 ...
EDN

Cryptography for embedded systems – Part 1: Security level categories & hashing

In this chapter we will look at choosing and optimizing cryptographic algorithms, particularly for resource-constrained systems, such as embedded systems. We will look at various strategies for ...