Re: sha-1 cryptography

[Saqib Ali <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

> SHA-1 is not a criptographic algorithm, it's a hash algorithm, and it is known that SHA-1 just as all others SHA 
> algorithms have a finite number os possibilities for a hash code. It means that two objects could generate the same 
> hash code.

well strictly speaking, all hash algorithm are cryptographic
algorithm. They are just "one-way" crypto-algorithms.


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