https://ahessmat.netlify.com/tags/sha-2/Recent content in SHA-2 on Asa's WebsiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 20 Feb 2020 03:41:25 +0000https://ahessmat.netlify.com/post/2020-02-introduction-to-hashes/Thu, 20 Feb 2020 03:41:25 +0000https://ahessmat.netlify.com/post/2020-02-introduction-to-hashes/Preamble Hashes are encoded representations of a variety of inputs (be they integers, strings, objects from programming languages, etc.). They are frequently employed and associated with hash tables, thus serving as a means for quickly storing and accessing data in near constant time – O(1) – as opposed to other conventional data structures (such as binary trees, heaps, and linked lists). Hashes employ complex mathematics (known as hashing functions) in order to convert their inputs to some numerical output.