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Re: Password Protecting files

From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:25:12 -0600
Subject: Re: Password Protecting files
References: <Xns99917147CB10Czzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5> <Xns99919BDC44623zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0708201135290.13622@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
Reply-to: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>

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.

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