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Comment by jounker

15 hours ago

Isn’t the entire point of a cryptographically secure hash that you can’t derive the original information?

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charcircuit  15 hours ago

You can't derive the original better than guessing. With public identifiers you can just take a list of them and guess with those. If someone asks for your email they can hash it themselves and compare it against whatever databases.

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