Hash collisions are a fact of life, but one that can have serious consequences when attackers can control the values being hashed. We looked at this problem, which can allow denial-of-service attacks, ...
Man pages (or perldoc pages in this case) are not the usual places to look for security holes, but that is apparently where two researchers found a whole class of problems for web application ...
Anyone with an interest in bitcoin will have heard the phrase 'cryptographic hash function' at some time or other. But what exactly does it mean, and how is it connected to cryptocurrency? Hash ...