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by nitrix 3991 days ago
Highly hashed IPs. Highly. Hashed. That made my day.
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Sorry, not used to speak about that with competent people :D
There are few enough IPv4 addresses that just about any hash forms an injective mapping which can be completely reversed: the best you can do is use something like HMAC and "pepper" it, but that only works if the clients can't verify or generate them.
They are server side, salted, and use multiple round hashing :)