Hashing and Encryption, do you know what these are? Some might have heard the names before and believe they are the same. But that is not the case at all. You see, much of the data that is moving ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

I could use a big DB of MD5 hashes and passwords, just to show how useless MD5 is*. Where I work all our systems use MD5 and DES for "encryption" (whoever wrote the code -- dozens of people -- didn't ...