The Battle of the Best: Hashing vs Encryption

Hashing vs encryption has been a long-standing debate in the technology world. Both security measures have their pros and cons, uses, and capabilities, driving a long wall of separation between the two. In encryption, we can encrypt the message and decrypt it, but in hashing, the message, once encrypted, cannot be decrypted. Encryption is mainly used to convert plain text into cipher text. Hashing is implemented with a different purpose. It is used to compare the same set of data …

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