Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson talks hash vs lattice-based cryptography, and how November's “poisoned transaction” hack could have destroyed Cardano if they were BFT-based “Ethereum is embracing ...

From the paper Fast Hashing of Variable-Length Text Strings (archived) by Peter K. Pearson with additional edits by jeblad (Dec 13, 2025). The core of the Pearson hash algorithm is fast execution on ...

1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States The specificity of the immune response is critical ...

As the digital economy accelerates and data security becomes a global priority, VEST Labs has officially unveiled its breakthrough innovation — VEST Hash, a next-generation cryptographic hash ...

Chief information security officers (CISOs) have learned to live with uncertainty—supply chain threats, zero-day exploits, and shadow IT. But one of the most dangerous blind spots is also one of the ...

Downloading a Windows 11 ISO file is the first step toward a clean installation or system upgrade—but how do you know the file is authentic and unaltered? Corrupt or tampered ISOs can cause failed ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

Recent breakthroughs in quantum computing have led market commentators to, once again, claim that Bitcoin’s future is under threat. Google’s Willow quantum chip and its ability to significantly reduce ...

Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention. When you install software packages or updates, the authenticity of a ...