After gaining access to the password hashes used to protect access to a web based application,
knowledge of which cryptographic algorithms would be useful to gain access to the application?
A.
SHA1
B.
Diffie-Helman
C.
RSA
D.
AES
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A
Explanation:
With the knowledge of SHA1 a user would be able to reverse the encoded message with the SHA1 encryption key and decrypt the message. Once you obtain the hashes of the application and with the knowledge of SHA1 algorithm, all a user would need to do is obtain the SHA1 cipher used for hashing the passwords and it would result in the unencrypted passwords.