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HASH ALGORITHM [4 records]

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Record 1 2024-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Mathematics
  • IT Security
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

... a unique identifier... for a given encryption or hash algorithm, together with any required parameters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques informatiques
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

[An individual or a group of individuals who competes] to solve a random hash algorithm to validate and add a block of transactions to the public ledger...

CONT

Aspiring cryptominers should also know that as cryptocurrencies have risen in both popularity and value, competition has increased substantially as well and now includes organizations and enterprises with more extensive resources than most individuals can compete with.

OBS

cryptocurrency miner; cryptominer; miner: not to be confused with the application used to mine cryptocurrencies.

Key term(s)
  • crypto miner
  • crypto-currency miner

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

[Personne ou groupe de personnes qui entre] en concurrence pour résoudre un algorithme de hachage aléatoire afin de valider et d'ajouter un bloc de transactions au registre public [...]

CONT

En échange de leurs services, les mineurs reçoivent gratuitement des unités monétaires virtuelles qui pourront être échangées.

OBS

mineur de cryptomonnaie, mineur : à ne pas confondre avec l'application utilisée pour le minage des cryptomonnaies.

Key term(s)
  • mineur de crypto-monnaie
  • mineur de crypto-monnaies
  • mineur de cryptomonnaies

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Computer Mathematics
CONT

The hash algorithm could be made pretty simple by just taking the least significant byte of the calling address and use that as the hash.

OBS

In message authentication, a mathematical procedure used to condense an input of any size into a digest of fixed length, typically 160 bits long. Cryptographically strong hash functions are designed so that a forger would find it computationally impossible to devise a different message that would yield the same hash. In other words, the fingerprints generated are virtually unique.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Mathématiques informatiques
CONT

Un algorithme de hachage est une fonction mathématique qui convertit une chaîne de caractères d'une longueur quelconque en une chaîne de caractères de taille fixe appelée digest ou empreinte.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad de IT
  • Matemáticas para computación
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Record 4 1998-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
OBS

The SHA-1 [Secure Hash Algorithm] is used to compute a message digest for a message or data file that is provided as input. The message or data file should be considered to be a bit string. The length of the message is the number of bits in the message(the empty message has length 0). If the number of bits in a message is a multiple of 8, for compactness we can represent the message in hex. The purpose of message padding is to make the total length of a padded message a multiple of 512. The SHA-1 sequentially processes blocks of 512 bits when computing the message digest.

OBS

Padding. In cryptography, the additional characters added to a plaintext message, to ensure that its length is an integral number of blocks for encryption by a block cipher.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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