February 27th, 2005, 06:11 PM
It's not an encrypted result. An encrypted result would be a cipher text (the plaintext encrypted). It's a form of integrity check, if you will. Basically, verifies that the information hasn't...
February 24th, 2005, 04:40 PM
It's just a simplistic example. The algorithms used are usually a lot more complicated. For the purposes of a simple example I said the algorithm was to add to numbers together (one is the key and...
February 24th, 2005, 04:27 PM
A password hash is the result of the password being passed through an algorithm. It's not the encrypted password but rather a result of it.
e.g.,
In a simplistic view, if my password is 6 and...
