On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:29:57 -0400 "Peter C. Lai" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:08:12PM +0300, Claudiu wrote: > > hello, > > > > please explain what do you mean by "reverse the hash". Is this the > > recreation of the originial message from its hash ? > > The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that such is > only one specific case. The general case is that the digest should not > reveal any information about the original message. > If this is the case, then it would be very cool! Imagine sending 32 bytes, then 'reverse the hash' to get XX MB's worth of data :] That would be great compression! -Tig _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"