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What’s the difference between encoding, encryption, and hashing?

What’s the difference between encoding, encryption, and hashing?

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Lydia
•?Encoding is designed to protect the integrity of data as it crosses networks and
Systems; to keep its original message upon arriving, and it isn’t primarily a security function. It is easily reversible because the system for encoding is almost necessarily and by definition in wide use.
•?Encryption is designed purely for confidentiality and is reversible only if you have the appropriate key/keys.
•?With hashing the operation is one-way (non-reversible), and the output is of a fixed length that is usually much smaller than the input.

lydiajane74 answered the question on May 13, 2018 at 23:32

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