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Answer by Praveen Gauravaram
Submitted on 4/5/2004
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Becki, Encryption is a scheme where an intelligible text (plaintext in crypto terms) is made unintelligible (ciphertext in crypto terms) using a secure key. Block and stream ciphers and public key systems do this work. The security of the ciphers reside in the key length and decryption process is a difficult without proper knowledge of the key. Coming to hashing, they are one-way functions that compress arbitrary length strings into fixed short strings (message digests). Hash Functions can be designed using block ciphers using a secret key as a parameter along with the message that has to be hashed or with out them (dedicated hash functions MD4,MD5,SHA-1 etc..). I recommend you to read Handbook of Applied Cryptography for fundamental concepts. I hope this helps you out.

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Question by Becki
Submitted on 4/3/2004
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Actually what is the difference between encryption and hashing?

Answer by soumya
Submitted on 6/1/2004
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how many ports DMZ opens

Answer by chacke
Submitted on 7/2/2004
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what do you have to know is that encryption you can decrypt by the right password or to crack it hashing is a one way encryption without decryption

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