Digital fingerprint
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Digital fingerprint may refer to:
  • Message digest - The output of a one-way function
    One-way function
    In computer science, a one-way function is a function that is easy to compute on every input, but hard to invert given the image of a random input. Here "easy" and "hard" are to be understood in the sense of computational complexity theory, specifically the theory of polynomial time problems...

     when applied to a stream of data.
  • Device fingerprint
    Device fingerprint
    A device fingerprint is a compact summary of software and hardware settings collected from a remote computing device....

    - A compact summary of software and hardware settings collected from a remote computing device.
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