I thought the same thing, which is why I posted it here.  It's possible that
it's a one-way mapping strategy and since I didn't know the formula used to
produce the hash, I couldn't tell if it was a one-way map.


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I found this little interesting page that suggests there shoud be  a hash
> > that outputs the same string as the input string.
>
> While it could exist, that does not mean it should or even that it
> will.  For example, if you imagine md5 producing a binary hash (just 1
> and 0), then this type of condition may exist:
>
> md5(1) => 0
> md5(0) => 1
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> >
>

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