 | Digest |
Namespace: MimeKit.Cryptography
Assembly: MimeKit (in MimeKit.dll) Version: 4.3.0
Syntaxpublic enum DigestAlgorithm
Members| Member name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| None | 0 | No digest algorithm specified. |
| MD5 | 1 | The MD5 digest algorithm. |
| Sha1 | 2 | The SHA-1 digest algorithm. |
| RipeMD160 | 3 | The Ripe-MD/160 digest algorithm. |
| DoubleSha | 4 | The double-SHA digest algorithm. |
| MD2 | 5 | The MD2 digest algorithm. |
| Tiger192 | 6 | The TIGER/192 digest algorithm. |
| Haval5160 | 7 | The HAVAL 5-pass 160-bit digest algorithm. |
| Sha256 | 8 | The SHA-256 digest algorithm. |
| Sha384 | 9 | The SHA-384 digest algorithm. |
| Sha512 | 10 | The SHA-512 digest algorithm. |
| Sha224 | 11 | The SHA-224 digest algorithm. |
| MD4 | 301 | The MD4 digest algorithm. |
RemarksDigest algorithms are secure hashing algorithms that are used to generate unique fixed-length signatures for arbitrary data.
The most commonly used digest algorithms are currently MD5 and SHA-1, however, MD5 was successfully broken in 2008 and should be avoided. In late 2013, Microsoft announced that they would be retiring their use of SHA-1 in their products by 2016 with the assumption that its days as an unbroken digest algorithm were numbered. It is speculated that the SHA-1 digest algorithm will be vulnerable to collisions, and thus no longer considered secure, by 2018.
Microsoft and other vendors plan to move to the SHA-2 suite of digest algorithms which includes the following 4 variants: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.
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