Message digest
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
A digital signature that uniquely identifies data and has the property that changing a single bit in the data will cause a completely different message digest to be generated.
polysemousMWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
A smaller extrapolated version of the original message created using a message digest algorithm
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
The result of applying a hash function to a message. Also known as a “hash value” or “hash output”.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 3 pending review
A cryptographic checksum, typically generated for a file that can be used to detect changes to the file. Synonymous with hash value/result.
Classifications
Entity Type
Data85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Message digests
- possessive
- Message digest's
- pluralpossessive
- Message digests'