EBK COMPUTER NETWORKING
EBK COMPUTER NETWORKING
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ISBN: 8220102955479
Author: Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem R10RQ

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Decrypting hash of a message:

Any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to data of a fixed size is called a hash function.

Hash functions provide message integrity as it is computationally infeasible to find any two messages with the same hash...

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