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Hashing

The process of running data through a hash function to produce a fixed-size digest, used to verify integrity, identify data, and (with proper protections) store passwords. It is a foundational security primitive.

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Algorithms that take input of any size and produce a fixed-size, unique-looking output (a hash), designed so the same input always yields the same hash and it is infeasible to reverse or to find two inputs with the same hash.

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