digest
- noun
- /ˈdaɪdʒɛst/
- Specialized
- The resulting 160-bit message digest is then sent to the SCM main dataflow to be sent back to the CPU or to the PKA engine for further processing.
Examples
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The final component of every data packet name implicitly includes a SHA256 digest of the packet.
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It resulted in 10,000 manuscript pages, in Kikongo, of which a digest appeared in English as the four volumes of Laman's The Kongo (Uppsala, 1953-1967).
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Every Monday, we send out a digest of digital advertising "must reads" chosen from the week before.
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Your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
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The digest component is not transmitted since it is derivable.
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Subsequent reads of blocks with the same digest will be served from the in-memory cache directly.
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As Section 3.2 notes, the full name of a ContentObject contains a cryptographic digest of its contents (a self-certifying name) and the identity (key) of its publisher.
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The software's security is verified by checking the SHA256 digest of the file.
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To ensure data integrity, the application calculates a digest whenever new information is saved.
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Each document in the database has a unique digest that helps us identify its content.
Synonyms
A code made from data to check if a file changed
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word digest is used in computing with the same Latin idea from dis- 'apart' and gest 'carry', meaning a short, arranged form. A computer digest is a small value that stands for a large file, so you can check or identify the data quickly, like a tiny summary.