Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

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 ...

1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States The specificity of the immune response is critical ...

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 ...

A lightweight cryptographic hash function inspired by ChaCha20, designed for speed, simplicity, and efficiency in resource-constrained environments. Ideal for embedded systems, research, and ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programs. They let you write reusable code, reduce duplication, and make projects easier to maintain. In this guide, we’ll walk through all the ways you can ...

Abstract: Spintronics-based devices for hardware security primitives have gained much interest due to their unique physical characteristics. In this work, the Cryptographic hash function (CHF) ...

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.

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) shares an April Fools' joke about randomly generating a wallet address for token burns, amusing the crypto community. While theoretically possible, the chance of generating an ...