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Linux, like other operating systems, uses caching to optimize system performance. Over time, these caches can accumulate, and although Linux…

The `/etc/passwd` file is one of the fundamental components of Linux and Unix-based systems. It contains information about user accounts…

Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) are cryptographic functions that transform data into a fixed-length hash value, which can be seen as…

The MD5 (Message Digest Algorithm 5) is a widely-used cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value. Designed…

The Secure Hash Algorithm 256-bit (SHA-256) is one of the cryptographic hash functions in the SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2)…