md5 hashing is a algorithm.it is also called as message digest algorithm.it is used for authentication purpose when we are sending the message from sender side to receiver side.
EIGRP supports Message Digest 5 (MD5) authentication to prevent malicious and incorrect routing information from being introduced into the routing table of a Cisco router.
Hashing is the technique of to retrieving the datas in the database. for example,we created one index for one main table,so how we can retrieve the index from that main table??? ans- to using one...
hashing algorithm contain two components - hashing function & collision. hashing is mechanism which generally used in random file organization to convert the record key value into address.