What is code hashing?

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farmdawgnation · Answer

In what context specifically?

anonymous · Answer

in context of password

farmdawgnation · Answer

Aha, right, so hashing is a method of encrypting the password. A popular hash function is MD5. So, for example the password "awesomepassword" has the MD5 hash "7e54e42730064ace485c07300dcb6db6"

farmdawgnation · Answer

This is useful because it allows you to check the validity of the password without storing the password in plaintext. The MD5 hash above is unique to the text "awesomepassword"... well, in theory at least. MD5 has been broken, so it's not the gold standard anymore - but it still illustrates the idea pretty well. You can read more about these types of hashes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

anonymous · Answer

so how u had coded "awesomepassword" 
intp  "7e54e42730064ace485c07300dcb6db6"

farmdawgnation · Answer

I just used this free website to do it: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php You can find websites to do the hashing for you for pretty much any of the hashing algorithms out there.

anonymous · Answer

So if we typing password of our any email account, our password is stored in the form of hash in the website database.

anonymous · Answer

which hash function is best?

farmdawgnation · Answer

Yes. And to my knoweldge SHA512 is the best out there in terms of speed and security.