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That explains the advice to always salt and pepper your hash.

What a good analogy, right.

Mince meat all looks the same to me, so it seems like a poor hashing medium, I would be passing auth 100% of the time, regardless of the cow. (Or dog! Or human!)

An analogy I like to use is a sum of numbers:

You take your letters and substitute them for numbers, A = 1, Z = 26.

Like a checksum, you add all the letters together. The same word produces the same sum each time, but if I had the sum, I wouldn't know for certain what the original word was.

Now I want a burger, but it’s midnight. Thanks