Maven – How to create a multi module project
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Maven to manage a Multi-module project containing four modules. Password module – Interface only. Password md5 module – Password module…
Adding Salt to Hashing: A Better Way to Store Passwords
A salt is added to the hashing process to force their uniqueness, increase their complexity without increasing user requirements, and to mitigate password attacks like hash tables
Hashing Passwords: One-Way Road to Security
A strong password storage strategy is critical to mitigating data breaches that put the reputation of any organization in danger. Hashing is the foundation of secure password storage.
Java 8 Function Examples
In Java 8, Function is a functional interface; it takes an argument (object of type T) and returns an object (object of type R). The argument and output can be…
Java – List of available MessageDigest Algorithms
In Java, you can use the Security.getAlgorithms("MessageDigest") to list all the available MessageDigest algorithms.
Java – Create file checksum with SHA and MD5
In this article, we will show you how to use a SHA-256 and MD5 algorithm to generate a checksum for a file. We have 2 ways: (1) using MessageDigest.getInstance(“algorithm”), (2)…
Java MD5 Hashing Example
The MD5, defined in RFC 1321, is a hash algorithm to turn inputs into a fixed 128-bit (16 bytes) length of the hash value. In Java, we can use MessageDigest…
Java SHA-256 and SHA3-256 Hashing Example
In Java, we can use MessageDigest to get a SHA-256 or SHA3-256 hashing algorithm to hash a string. This article shows how to use Java SHA-256 and SHA3-256 algorithms to…