How mining works is fascinating. When I explain it to people, I enjoy seeing their face the moment their mind is blown. I’ll explain it here, but just know, I’m imagining all your faces as your minds ...

Understanding Bitcoin is a one-way hash function should make sense because a hash function cannot be reversed. Once you understand that, it is hard to go back to thinking otherwise. The secure hash ...

Fundamentally, Git repositories are built on hash values — presently using the SHA-1 algorithm. A simplified explanation of the importance of hash values to Git follows; readers may also be interested ...

Cryptographic hash functions are widely used in many aspects of security, such as digital signatures and data integrity checks. The short digital fingerprint generated from an electronic file, message ...

The news has been proclaimed loudly and often: the SHA-1 hash algorithm is terminally broken and should not be used in any situation where security matters. Among other things, this news gave some ...

Mahathi Kari's research contributes to this conversation by examining one of the foundational building blocks of secure computing: cryptographic hashing.

Despite years of warnings to remove it due to potentially exploitable weaknesses, the SHA-1 hash algorithm has been broken by researchers who have developed the first practical technique for ...

The PKI industry recommends that every SHA-1 enabled PKI move to the vastly more secure SHA-2. Here's why and how. For the past two years, I’ve been busy helping Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) ...