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Discussion on: You Wouldn't Base64 a Password! Cryptography Terms and Concepts for Developers

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Eric Lawrence

This looks great, thanks for sharing.

you cannot easily go from the hash output to the original message.

I feel like that one requires an asterisk, e.g. (* unless you happen to have a large table mapping original messages to hash values. Use salts to combat rainbow tables).