Hashing - Crypto 101

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Hashing - Crypto 101 TryHackMe walkthrough with 16 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Sample prompts covered

• Is base64 encryption or encoding?
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• What is the output size in bytes of the MD5 hash function?
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• Can you avoid hash collisions? (Yea/Nay)
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• If you have an 8 bit hash output, how many possible hashes are there?
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• Crack the hash "d0199f51d2728db6011945145a1b607a" using the rainbow table manually.
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