Which cryptographic technique ensures that the content of a message or document has not been altered during transmission?
- Compression
- Encryption
- Hashing
- Steganography
Hashing is a cryptographic technique that ensures data integrity. It creates a fixed-size hash value from the original data, and any alteration in the data will result in a different hash value, indicating that the data has been tampered with.
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