Datatypes

RIPEMD-160 hash

ID ripemd160hash

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

Digest of the RIPEMD-160 hash function (160 bits), used for example in Bitcoin addresses. It is written as 40 hexadecimal digits. SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 digests have the same length, so the value alone does not tell them apart: use the field name or context.

Parent datatype
Hash by field name (generic) hash
Categories
Cryptographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
Metacrafter rules
2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)
Supported by tools
metacrafter

Regular expression

^[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
9c1185a5c5e9fc54612808977ee8f548b2258d31RIPEMD-160 hash of the empty string
8eb208f7e05d987a9b044a8e98c6b087f15a0bfcRIPEMD-160 hash of the string 'abc'
9c1185a5c5e9fc54612808977ee8f548b2258d3 invalidone hex digit short (39 instead of 40)

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