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because it is more secure than any other algorithm.
NTLM (NT LAN Manager) uses the MD4 hash algorithm for hashing passwords. When a user sets a password, NTLM computes an MD4 hash of the UTF-16LE encoded password. This hash is then stored in the Security Account Manager (SAM) database. However, due to its vulnerabilities, NTLM is considered weak and has largely been replaced by more secure authentication protocols like Kerberos.
Hashing is the most common form of purely random access to a file or database. It is also used to access columns that do not have an index as an optimisation technique. Hash functions calculate the address of the page in which the record is to be stored based on one or more fields in the record. The records in a hash file appear randomly distributed across the available space. It requires some hashing algorithm and the technique. Hashing Algorithm converts a primary key value into a record address. The most popular form of hashing is division hashing with chained overflow.
hash key is an element in the hash table. it is the data that you will combine (mathematical) with hash function to produce the hash.
Common implementations of the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) typically use the MD5 hash algorithm. CHAP uses a challenge-response mechanism where a server sends a challenge to the client, which then computes a hash of the challenge and its password to respond. Although MD5 is widely used, it is considered less secure by modern standards, and more secure alternatives are recommended for sensitive applications.
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Both SHA-1 and SHA-0 use a 160-bit hash value. Note that "SHA-0" is a retronym for the original SHA hash algorithm. SHA-1 corrected some significant flaws in the original algorithm that yielded some serious security weakness. The TIGER hash algorithm is designed to use a 192-bit hash, but also has the capability to use 160-bit and 128-bit hash values. The HAVAL algorithm can produce hashes in lengths of 128 bits, 160 bits, 192 bits, 224 bits, and 256 bits. One version of the RIPEMD algorithm, RIPEMD-160, has a 160-bit hash. Other versions of RIPEMD, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-256, and RIPEMD-320, use 128, 256, and 320-bit hashes respectively. Of these, the most common is probably SHA-1, which is available on most Windows based machines.
because it is more secure than any other algorithm.
The number of bits used in hash values varies by algorithm. For example, the MD5 algorithm produces a 128-bit hash, SHA-1 generates a 160-bit hash, and SHA-256 outputs a 256-bit hash. Each algorithm is designed to provide a different level of security and collision resistance, with longer hashes generally offering greater security.
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Some well-known hash algorithms with a 160-bit output:RIPEMMD-160SHA-0/SHA-1Tiger-160
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NTLM (NT LAN Manager) uses the MD4 hash algorithm for hashing passwords. When a user sets a password, NTLM computes an MD4 hash of the UTF-16LE encoded password. This hash is then stored in the Security Account Manager (SAM) database. However, due to its vulnerabilities, NTLM is considered weak and has largely been replaced by more secure authentication protocols like Kerberos.
You are probably referring to the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm which is a widely used cryptographic hash function that produces 128-bit (16-byte) hash values. A hash function is an algorithm that takes a block of data and creates a string of data (hash) of fixed length. By running the algorithm on a received block of data, a user should be able to detect whether the data has been altered because a given block of data should always yield the same hash unless it has been altered. Ideally a hash function will allow easy computation of the hash value for any given message but make it hard to start with the hash value and come up with a message that will yield that hash value. It should also be so difficult to modify a message without changing the hash that the time and effort necessary to do it exceeds the value of doing it and extremely difficult or impractical to find two different messages with the same hash. Note that by its nature the MD5 hash is not supposed to allow you to recover the message that was processed. Usually when we use the word "encryption" we are talking about a process where a message is converted to something called "cyphertext" which is unreadable unless you have the right algorithm and key to decrypt it and convert it back to the original message. In this respect it is more accurate to refer to "MD5 hashing" rather than MD5 encryption. See the attached link for more details on the MD5 hash.