On Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:42:59 AM Steven Alligood wrote: > 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 here > >> > >> ok, 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. > >> html > > > > Technically, 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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