Hash (cryptography)

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In cryptography a hash or message digest is a fixed-size digest which can be calculated from an input text of any size up to some large limit.

MD4 and descendants

MD5

SHA

SHA-2

Other 20th century hashes

Tiger

Whirlpool

The Advanced Hash Standard

Skein

From Bruce Schneier and others: [1]

MD6

From a team led by Ron Rivest.

CubeHash

From Dan Bernstein, [2]

Essence

From Jason Worth Martin [3]

Sgàil

Peter Maxwell [4]

EnRUPT

Sean O'Neil [5]


Maraca

Robert Jenkins [6]