Have you ever entered your bank card number or social security information into a website to buy something online or to register to vote? Have you ever inputed your phone number or email address into an app when creating a profile? Websites, apps, and many other mediums that use the internet tend to be a hub for hackers to infiltrate and acquire personal information about people. Today, more than ever, our computing devices need to be kept secure. Hackers and viruses are on the rise and it is important to protect ourselves and the information we store on said devices.
The Secure Hash Algorithm is a group of cryptographic algorithms created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that help to determine that you download what you want and not a virus or a portal for a hacker to enter your computing devices. It also makes sure that the information that you enter into mediums that use the internet is secure. Many apps and websites use this algorithm to protect our information whether it be for our personal information security or as legal protection for themselves so that they are not liable for any of our inputed information being hacked if happened to be.
The millennial generation is known for their tendencies to press "accept" when asked to agree to terms and conditions, or anything of that nature, without reading them. We don't know for a fact if the app or website we are using is secure enough for us to put our information in or if the medium even guarantees safety of your information. Thanks to The Secure Hash Algorithm we mostly don't have worry about the information we enter into mediums that use the internet that are widely known or are the websites of large corporations as most are usually secured by this algorithm or a similar group of algorithms.
References:
https://www.hackingtrainer.com
https://medium.com/@_marcos_otero/the-real-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-e95fa9f16c04#.azqyazfwh
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