🛡️ Free practice test question from: Hashing (Security+)

Hashing is a one-way cryptographic process that takes an input (or 'message') and produces a fixed-size string of characters called a hash or digest.

• The key characteristics of hashing are:

  → It is a one-way function, meaning you cannot reconstruct the original data from the hash value.

  → The same input will always produce the same hash output.

  → Even a tiny change in the input produces a significantly different hash.

  → Hashing and encryption are different processes. Encryption is a two-way process that can be reversed with a key, while hashing is one-way.

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