A rainbow table is a large, precomputed table designed to cache the output of cryptographic hash functions to decrypt hashed passwords into plaintext. Rainbow tables were invented by IT expert ...

The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithmhas publicly declared his software end-of-life and is "no longer considered safe" to use on commercial websites. This comes only a day after a ...

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comments from the public on it’s latest cryptographic hash function, SHA-3. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is ...

The Bitcoin (BTC) network’s hash rate suffered a mysterious flash crash on Sept. 23, in a sudden intraday plummet from 98,000,000 TH/S to 57,700,000 TH/s. By press time, levels have recovered back to ...