Keywords: Avalanche effect.svg The SHA1 hash function exhibits good avalanche effect When a single bit is changed the hash sum becomes totally different The hash sums in the diagram are the SHA1 sums of the strings 000 001 and 010 encoded in standard ASCII and no trailing new line etc The difference between 000 and 001 is only one bit even though it is ASCII encoded bytes Original illustration by David Göthberg Sweden Released by David as public domain Cryptography diagrams 2006-08-08 own assumed Davidgothberg |