CIDR was invented in 1990, and was the change that allowed routers to use classless addresses to route traffic instead of class-full addresses. This helped a huge amount as before its invention, routers could only route traffic based on full classes. If we look at Class A address for example, there are only 126 of […]
Hashing is very different from encryption even though so many people believe it is an encryption protocol. Yes it does scramble the data, so from that aspect it is an encryption program, but the big difference between hashing and encryption, is that Hashing is mathematically impossible to reverse. Now I’m not the kind of person […]
The way that IP addresses have been used and allocated over the years has changed somewhat, however the principles have not changed. In order to better manage IP addresses they were put into classes and each class followed certain rules. In this post we are going to focus on the Class-full address structures, and understand […]