👉 Centares is a concept in the field of cryptography, specifically used to describe a type of security key or cryptographic hash function. The term "centare" comes from Greek and refers to the measurement of an object as being 1/30th its size when viewed from above (the centa), and half its size when viewed from below. The concept was first introduced by the Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov in 1964. The term is often used