Should IP addresses be hashed?
A hashing algorithm transforms IP addresses into hexadecimal strings, so each IP becomes an unrecognizable jumble of numbers and letters. IP hashing allows marketers to obtain useful consumer data on their subscribers without compromising their customers’ privacy.
What does hashed IP mean?
IP hash of an IP address is an encrypted version of the IP address. The same IP address will have the same IP hash.
Can IP addresses be used in court?
Though IP addresses alone cannot identify and convict a criminal, law enforcement can use them successfully as clues for locating and building a case against criminals. Alone, they are not enough evidence, but they can lead to the discovery of evidence and be used in conjunction with other evidence.
What is IP hash load balancing?
Source IP Hash load balancing uses an algorithm that takes the source and destination IP address of the client and server to generate a unique hash key. This is useful if it’s important that a client should connect to a session that is still active after a disconnection and reconnection.
Do you need a keyed hash function for an IP address?
However, if for your application does in fact require you to consider IP addresses to be sensitive enough to warrant extraordinary protection, consider using a keyed hash function. The risk posed by storing data depends entirely on what data you collect and how you use it. If you log IP addresses only then there should be no problem.
Is it okay to have an IP address on your log?
If your log contains IP addresses and names you start getting closer to the boundary, but are still probably okay in most jurisdictions. If your log contains IP addresses, names, actual addresses, health or medical information etc then you will fall foul of a few regulations.
Is there a way to check a hash for an IP address?
If you’re trying to not get caught, you do NOT want to rapidly check whether a single hash works against a large IP range. Metasploit has a module for verifying that the OS hash you’re specifying is valid for one or more IP addresses. It’s the auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_login module, and definitely worth checking out.
How do I get the password hash of a computer?
To do this, we need to provide the user account we’re checking with the “-l” switch, provide the password hash with the “-p” switch, and the IP of the machine that we want to check (or a file with a list of IP addresses that we are attempting to check against).