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RE: Password Protecting files
On 20 August 2007 20:36, Michael Schaap wrote:
> On 20-Aug-2007 21:25, Warren Young wrote:
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>
>>> Of course, for a thoroughly secure way of protecting your data you could
>>> run it through a hippo
>>
>> Hippo is a *hash* algorithm, you twit, not an encryption algorithm.
>> It's obvious to anyone who looks at it that it's a one-way function.
>>
> You mean, all that time I've spent trying to decrypt Hippo dung has been
> wasted? Sheesh, you could've mentioned that a bit earlier...
>
> - Michael
<looks up, arms up to elbows in pile of hippo dung>
You mean we were meant to be decrypting this? I thought we were just playing
in the dirt for fun!
cheers,
DaveK
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