Defining moment.
YOU GET AN e-mail from a trusted associate with vital information about an upcoming corporate deal. How do you know that it's truly from your associate and that the message has not been tampered with?A computerized function helps you find out. This function distills the text of an e-mail into a set of numbers before an e-mail message is encrypted.
Then, when the message is received, the recipient's computer decrypts the message and distills the e-mail into numbers again. It then automatically compares the numbers. If they match, the message has not been tampered with; if they don't, then the received message is not the same as the original version.
What is this function called?
Hint: Think of a common type of breakfast potatoes.
ANSWER: Hashing.
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| Title Annotation: | hashing for e-mail security |
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| Author: | Piazza, Peter |
| Publication: | Security Management |
| Article Type: | Brief Article |
| Geographic Code: | 1USA |
| Date: | Oct 1, 2005 |
| Words: | 127 |
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