Category Archives: cryptography

Git: how to use tags

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Tagging is a very popular and common concept in version control systems. Tags are generally used to mark special milestones in a history of your repository like releasing a new version of your product. The common practice is to create … Continue reading →

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Calculating cryptographic hash functions in Java

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Cryptographic hash function is an algorithm which takes block of data of arbitrary length as an input and outputs a short fixed-length sequence of bits (usually 128-512 bits) and which ideally should have following properties: it is very easy to … Continue reading →

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