Difference between hashing and encryption
Posted on Wednesday 18 February 2009
Nowadays no one is trustworthy anymore on the internet. You wouldn‘t want all your private data to be made public when you buy something online now, would you. This calls for security measures. That‘s where encryption and hashing come into play. Both hashing and encryption use an algorithm to transform insecure plaintext information into a secure enciphered format. Both methods use a key to encrypt the data. With hashing the plaintext is the key itself. With encryption the key allows you to decrypt the encrypted data.