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Posted by Geoff Berrow on 05/28/05 17:59
I noticed that Message-ID: <3fr8cfF979vlU1@individual.net> from simon
contained the following:
>> It is a one way hash function.
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>I am sorry, but I don't quite agree.
>I did, (and still do), some reading, the fact is that you can get a string
>given a hash key.
Not with any certainty, especially if the password is a random string of
characters. Any number of strings could produce the same hash.
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>Please note that I was, (maybe wrongly), talking about passwords.
>Every application compares the key and not the string.
But the OP wanted to know if you could get the original string from the
hash. And, effectively, you can't.
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Geoff Berrow 0110001001101100010000000110
001101101011011001000110111101100111001011
100110001101101111001011100111010101101011
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