Chapter 7. Crypto, Hash, and Conversion Functions
Cryptography can play an important role in certain types of information security vulnerability, as it helps to implement secure delivery of authenticating data in one direction, secure delivery of the authentication token, access control, and much more. One-way cryptographic functions are used in websites to store passwords in a manner that they cannot be retrieved. In this chapter, we will discuss various cryptographic functions in Python.
Topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
- Hash functions
- Secret key (Encryption algorithms)
- Public key algorithms
Cryptographic algorithms
The following three types of cryptography algorithms are used most often:
- Hash functions: Hash functions are also known as ...
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