Cryptographic Hashing

SHA-256, Keccak, and one-way functions

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A hash is like a unique fingerprint for any piece of data. Change one letter, and the entire fingerprint changes.

You can always create a hash from data, but you can never reverse-engineer the original data from a hash.

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