Encryption Guides & Tutorials
3 Encryption guides and tutorials - practical usage, common errors and worked examples.
3 guides in this category
Why Decryption Fails: Keys, IVs, Chunking, Separators
Decryption usually fails for one of four reasons - the key was read as text, the IV got reused, RSA chunked at the wrong size, or the separators do not match.
AES or RSA? Symmetric, Asymmetric and What Morse Code Is Not
AES is fast and symmetric, RSA is slow and asymmetric. Learn which to use, why keys and IVs must never repeat, and why Morse code is only encoding.
MD5 vs SHA-256: What Hashes Prove and Which to Use
What a hash can and cannot prove. Output lengths for MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256, how to verify a downloaded file, and why unsalted hashes fail for passwords.
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Generate a 32-character MD5 digest for text or a whole file
Open tool →SHA HashSHA-1 / SHA-256 / SHA-512 hash generator for text or files
Open tool →AES / DES EncryptAES/DES symmetric encryption with AES-128/256 CBC modes
Open tool →RSA EncryptRSA online encryption with 2048/3072/4096-bit key generation
Open tool →Morse CodeMorse code converter for letters, numbers and punctuation
Open tool →UUID / GUID GeneratorGenerate UUID v4 random, v1 timestamp, v7 sortable
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