Discover how Merkle roots ensure data integrity in blockchain transactions and reduce verification time. Learn their role in ...

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 ...

This old-school recipe delivers big comfort. Texas hash is packed with flavor and is a surprisingly savory dish for something so simple. Vegetables and rice cook up tender. The meat is perfectly ...

Abstract: Recently, many efforts have been devoted to improving the retrieval performance of supervised cross-modal hashing; however, current methods are gradually reaching a performance bottleneck, ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

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 ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

Cryptographic hash functions secure data by providing a unique fixed-length output for each input. These functions are essential in blockchain for data integrity and secure transactions. Understanding ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.