A forensics analyst is tasked identifying identical files on a hard drive. Due to the large number of files to be compared, the analyst must use an algorithm that is
known to have the lowest collision rate. Which of the following should be selected?
A.
MD5
B.
RC4
C.
SHA1
D.
AES-256
Order of collision possibility from most to least:
MD5
SHA1
SHA224
SHA256
SHA384
SHA512
RC4 is a stream cipher
AES256 is a block cipher