A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MODERN CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASH FUNCTIONS

FERNANDO S*. VIRAY JR.
Page No. 1-10

The need to provide a short yet computationally infeasible message digest as security reference is tantamount to secured sending of information or files in an unsecured network. Cryptographic hash functions are one-way functions that yields a 32-character length string that is used to validate and cross-check that information received is indeed unchanged when it travelled in an unsafe communication channel. In this paper, the researchers evaluated the two most common modern cryptographic hash functions, Message Digest number 5 (MD5) and Secure Hash Algorithm number 1 (SHA-1) in terms of performance and computational hardness.
Keywords : modern cryptographic hash function, Message Digest 5 (MD5), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1)