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@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ distributed to the other party via untrusted channels. In 1976 Whitfield Diffie
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and Martin Hellman published a paper in which they devised a \emph{public-key
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distribution scheme}, which allows the two parties to arrive at a shared secret
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by exchanging information via insecure channels with the presence of an
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eavesdropper.
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eavesdropper. This scheme (or its variations) is in use to this day.
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\n{2}{Hash functions}
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@ -117,11 +117,12 @@ device has come across, such as when connecting to a website protected by the
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famed HTTPS.
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The popularity stems from a common use case: the need to identify a chunk of
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data. Of course, two chunks of data, two files, frames or packets could
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always be compared bit by bit, but that can get prohibitive from both cost and
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energy point of view relatively quickly. That is when hash functions come in,
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data. Of course, two chunks of data, two files, frames or packets could always
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be compared bit by bit, but that can get prohibitive from both cost and energy
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point of view relatively quickly. That is when the hash functions come in,
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since they are able to take a long input and produce a short output, named a
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digest or a hash value.
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digest or a hash value. It also does not work the other way around, a file
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cannot be reconstructed from the hash digest, it is a one-way function.
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\n{3}{Rainbow tables}
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