Rich Salz wrote: >> reversible compression hash alogorithms out there? > > I'm not a mathematical cryptographer, but that phrase sounds like an > implausability to me.
It is, of course, trivial to prove that anything with arbitrary length input and fixed length output is not reversible. I missed the rest of this discussion though :-) Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
