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notahappycamper
2770 days ago
Why are there only hashing algorithms for this? Doesn't that defeat the purpose entirely, since there is no potential to decrypt?
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raghavtoshniwal
2769 days ago
The author of the tweet has the original message, that can be shared and verified against the hash
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notahappycamper
2764 days ago
So it only provides repudiation of the sender, and only if they can share the original message through some secure channel? That isn't even a signature, let alone encryption
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O_H_E
2768 days ago
I am failing to recognise the use case (Beside the learning dimension which is great).
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