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Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: choice-point screw-up and secure hashes



On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:02:36 GMT, Jason Coombs said:
> > reverse hashing
> 
> By reverse hashing you mean defeating the protection by forward hashing all 
> possible SSNs, presumably.

No, that's me writing in a hurry and failing to make clear that if you're
using an invertible function, you'll have sub-functions to do the forward
and reverse functions, and both will probably be compromised at the same
time as  the actual hash value....

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