Hashing Basics

Walkthrough summary

Hashing Basics TryHackMe walkthrough with 17 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Sample prompts covered

• What is the SHA256 hash of the passport.jpg file in ~/Hashing-Basics/Task-2?
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• What is the output size in bytes of the MD5 hash function?
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• If you have an 8-bit hash output, how many possible hash values are there?
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• What is the 20th password in rockyou.txt?
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• Manually check the hash “4c5923b6a6fac7b7355f53bfe2b8f8c1” using the rainbow table above.
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