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Re:Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison Af... by maaaats on Saturday September 02, 2017 @10:02AM (#15156008)
You can't unhash, so you could never retrieve the original file again.
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Re:Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison Af... by poizan42 on Saturday September 02, 2017 @10:04AM (#15156020)
What do you mean? You obviously store the encrypted file together with the encrypted hash.
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Re:Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison Af... by maaaats on Saturday September 02, 2017 @10:08AM (#15156044)
Then I guess me and the downvoters thought you meant hashing the files for encryption :)
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