On 5/4/11 10:14 AM, Matthew Walker wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 9:37 am, Steven Alligood wrote:On 5/3/11 5:20 PM, Robert Merrill wrote:Robert Merrill "Vaguely awesome quote from Matrix/Firefly/Battlestar Gallactica/Glee Goes Here" MD5 Hash of this message goes here Public Key of my encrypted Md5 hash of this message goes hereok, he *did* ask for this. Technically, an MD5 hash is not encrypted. It's Hashed. A hash is only a one way mechanism. Encryption is two way. http://forum.codecall.net/blogs/wingedpanther/244-encryption-vs-hashing.htmlTechnically, he didn't claim the MD5 was an encryption of his message. He said he included the public key of his encrypted MD5 hash. :)
You're right, I made an assumption.He could have given us the hash, then the key that he had encrypted the hash with, but not the ciphertext of the encrypted hash.
That could be what he meant, but I assumed that he was sane. :)
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