In message <[email protected]>, Tig writes: >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! That would not be compression (and hopefully you know it). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"