hashing

The reason for the love of hashing is that it is one-way.

What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned | FactoryCity 2009

Gore was a talky candidate who believed in hashing things out, and he put his own family traumas on the record.

USATODAY.com 2002

Sony clarified on its PlayStation blog Monday that user passwords were protected using a method called hashing, which isn't strictly encryption, but makes use of a cryptographic algorithm.

CBC | Top Stories News 2011

One method is called "hashing," which creates specific, anonymous strings of numbers and letters from plain text data such as your name or phone number.

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis Joshua Topolsky 2012

My point is that although password hashing is a very wise practise, there are situations in which the plaintext is necessary, and with careful design a plaintext password store can be made no weaker in security than the rest of the system.

What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned | FactoryCity 2009

The group tackled organizational business, namely hashing out a structure for the nonprofit corporation they would form.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members' personal information.

TIME.com: Top Stories Graeme McMillan 2011

The issue was in jBCrypt, a library we use for password hashing, and is outlined here.

Gizmodo Tom Plunkett 2011

The issue was in jBCrypt, a library we use for password hashing, and is outlined here.

Gizmodo Tom Plunkett 2011

You can read more about password hashing in MySQL 5.1 here

Planet MySQL Ryan Lowe 2010