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Re: Password Protecting files
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