RIPEMD-160 Hash Generator

This tool generates the RIPEMD-160 hash of a given text. RIPEMD-160 is a cryptographic hash function which takes an input text and generates a 160-bit hash value which is 40 characters in length.
RIPEMD-160 Hash Generator

Generated RIPEMD-160 Hash

Description

  • This tool generates the RIPEMD-160 hash of a given text.

Facts

  • RIPEMD-160, which stands for RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest, is a hash function.
  • RIPEMD-160 is a cryptographic hash function which takes an input text and generates a 160-bit hash value which is 40 characters in length.
  • RIPEMD-160 was intended to be a replacement for MD5 and previous RIPEMD versions but has since been superseded by SHA-256 and SHA512.
  • RIPEMD-160 is used in the Bitcoin standard.
  • The RIPEMD-160 hash value of an empty string or empty file is 9c1185a5c5e9fc54612808977ee8f548b2258d31.

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