On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> There was/is an old trick called irreversible encryption. It's used by
> Unix/Linux, I believe.
That's what hashing is: a one-way process that produces a value that
cannot be used to re-create the original.
-- Ed Leafe
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