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Hashing, What is it and how does it work?

Posted June 12, 2009August 29, 2009 JayLeave a commentPosted in CCNA (ICND2), CSVPN, IINS, Networking 101, Security

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 […]

Ports and their use.

Posted June 11, 2009September 4, 2009 Jay1 CommentPosted in IINS, Networking 101, Security

Ports are logical channels that devices use to identify a type of traffic. If you can imagine that you and I have a 10 meter cable, that has 10,000 wires running through it, and I take 2 of the wires and attach them into the ends of a battery, and you choose 2 wires on […]

How encryption works

Posted June 4, 2009August 29, 2009 Jay2 CommentsPosted in CSVPN, IINS, Networking 101, Security

The concept of encryption can be quite daunting when you first look at it, however the basic concept of encryption is not that hard to understand   When I moved into my house, my bathroom door didn’t have a key. The previous owners of the house didn’t know what key was needed for that door […]

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