Aug 30, 2017 · An integrity hash (e.g. CRC32), sometimes called a "redundancy hash", has the properties necessary to provide a fairly good indication of accidental corruption of a file. These …

Jul 5, 2018 · The best example of where it makes sense to verify a hash is when retrieving the hash from the software's trusted website (using HTTPS of course), and using it to verify files …

Mar 25, 2013 · In case someone could modify the data but not the hash. This makes sense if you send the data through a channel that has a high bandwidth but may be subject to data …

Nov 29, 2018 · (If you publish the hash, then in theory someone could figure out the file from it, but there's no better way to do that than to try all plausible files until they find the right one. If …

Nov 5, 2022 · The goal of file integrity / hash checking and virus scanning is to check whether the file is fine right now, so the problem of future manipulation doesn't really apply (if something on …

Sep 27, 2018 · A cryptographic hash function (such as SHA1) is a checksum that is secure against malicious changes. It is pretty hard to create a file with a specific cryptographic hash. …

May 3, 2015 · If the hash is over HTTPS and the file over HTTP, that is one of the times a hash can help; it extends the integrity provided by HTTPS to the file and does so even if the hash is …

Feb 11, 2019 · The certificate had been used to sign a legitimate file, where the signature was done over the (weaK) md5 hash of the file. The authors of the Flame malware used a chosen …

The SAM file is mounted in the registry as HKLM/SAM. Windows locks this file, and will not release the lock unless it's shut down (restart, BSOD, etc). However, if you look at the SAM …

Jul 31, 2020 · If you omit the --format specifier, john obviously recognizes the format of the hash file correctly. When you read the output of your john command, you see that the passphrase is …