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Even if it seems like JavaScript has been around forever, generating an MD5 hash with it is not a built-in feature. Today, I’ll show you how you can create MD5 hashes in your JavaScript code. The easiest way to generate a MD5 hash with JavaScript is to use an external library. For example, the blueimp-md5…
User credential (which refers to username and password combinations used for accessing online accounts) are very sensitive data sets that must necessarily be protected. Attack to such data sets lead to the financial ruin, sabotage or exposure of confidential materials belonging to individuals and financial and integrity ruin for organizations. There has been appreciable development…
Most of the time, the passwords you use on your favorites websites are not stored in plain text. They are first hashed for security reasons. But if someone gets access to the database with all logins and passwords, can the passwords be decrypted? That’s what’s we’ll talk about in this article. As a general rule,…
As you may already know, most passwords are stored hashed by the developers of your favorites websites. It means they don’t keep the password you chose in a plain text form, they convert it into another value, a representation of this password. But in the process, can two passwords have the same hash representation? That’s…
On each website where you enter your password, the website owner has to keep it in a way or another so that it can check your identity the next time you log in. Do you wonder how they memorize your password? Is it safe? I’ll answer your questions in this article. Developers have several methods…
MD5 is a cryptographic hash function, that has many advantages like the speed to generate them and the almost irreversible algorithm. These have leaded the MD5 algorithm to be widely used in the past, but where is this function still used nowadays? The most common application of the MD5 algorithm is now to check files…
MD5 is a hashing function that is often used to check if a file transfer is complete and the file has not been corrupted during it. On each system there are different tools you can use to a file checksum, and in this article we’ll see how to do this on Windows. On Windows 10,…
That’s a common question when you work with hashes for the first time. I’m not (yet) native speaker in MD5, but I think I can help you to guess if a hash you have is a MD5 or not. The MD5 algorithm generate 128-bits long hashes, generally represented in a string of 32 hexadecimal characters….
This is a common question with cryptographic algorithms (MD5, SHA1, etc.). The security issues with these algorithms often come from a misunderstanding of what they are and how they work. In this article, we’ll especially look at the MD5 algorithm and if it can be decrypted or not. As a general rule, the MD5 algorithm…
The MD5 algorithm is often used to check large files (after a download for example). By comparing the MD5 output, we can tell if they are the same file or not. But is it possible to have the same MD5 hash for two different files? That’s what we’ll see in this article. Two files can…