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Encoding is the act of transforming information from one form to another. In cryptography, encoding is typically used to refer to an unkeyed process that does not provide any security in itself, but just changes the representation of information into a more convenient form.

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How can you tell the type of encoding being used?

That looks like bcrypt. There are four parts: $2y - identifier that this is bcrypt in modular crypt format. $05 - number of key expansion rounds: in this case, it is 25 68LWs...X/e - this is the sa …
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