Python-security-hashing

Overview:

It is the project for ShapeAi Bootcamp in python and network security.
I have created this project to demonstrate the use of various algorithms from Hashlib.
Also, I have demonstrated the use of salting and iteration on hashes to increase security and protection.

What is Hashing:

Hashing is a one-way function where a unique message digest is generated from an input file or a string of text.
It's used to prevent unauthorized users from reading data from a file by rendering it into an unreadable form.

What is Salt and Iteration:

• salt is random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password, or passphrase
• Iteration on hashes, is the way to make password hash more secure. In this, we first generate a hash from the base string and again generate the hash of the previous hash and so on.

Python Libraries Required:

• Hashlib - for proving random algorithms.
• Uuid - for generating random string for salting purposes.

Algothrims Used:

• MD5
• SHA-1
• SHA-224
• SHA-256
• SHA-512