理解SHA vs MD vs Whirlpool vs SHA-256

• Overview

  《深入理解hash哈希散列函数》

  Encryption and hashing are similar in the way that they both take a string of useful text and convert it into somthing very different.

  MD5, SHA, Whirlpool are all one-way encryption methods, which mean hasing method and what makes one stronger than the other.

  The answer is actually very simple: the more bits a hash contains, the more secure.

  MD5 is a 128-bits string, SHA-1 is a 160-bit string and Whirlpool is a 512-bit string.

• MD family of hashing algorithms

  The MD family of hashing algorithms were designed by Ron Rivest during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

  MD actually stands for Message Digest.