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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


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