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Encryption is the process of transforming plaintext using a cipher into ciphertext to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing the key. Decryption is the process of transforming that ciphertext back into plaintext, using the key.
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Why bcrypt is one-way while Blowfish is reversible?
One of the characteristics required of a "secure" encryption algorithm is that it should be impossible to find a method faster than brute force, to recover the encryption key knowing only the ciphertext … Blowfish is reversible in the sense that if you know the key you can reverse the encryption. …
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