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A cryptographic hash algorithm is a function which takes a variable size input and produces a fixed size output. The algorithm makes it difficult to find two inputs with the same output or reconstruct the input from the output.

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Message authentication vs entity authentication

Message authentication (sometimes called data origin authentication) is the assurance that a given entity was the original source of the received data. Entity authentication (or user authent …
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