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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