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Re:Hashing is not encryption by tptacek on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:06PM (#29866848)
Pretty much everybody uses this for encryption; the most popular stream cipher (qua stream cipher) in the world is Salsa20/ChaCha20, which is simply a keyed hash function run in counter mode.
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