Password Protecting files

[Michael Schaap]

On 20-Aug-2007 21:25, Warren Young wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>
>> Of course, for a thoroughly secure way of protecting your data you could
>> run it through a hippo 
>
> Hippo is a *hash* algorithm, you twit, not an encryption algorithm. 
> It's obvious to anyone who looks at it that it's a one-way function.
>
You mean, all that time I've spent trying to decrypt Hippo dung has been 
wasted?  Sheesh, you could've mentioned that a bit earlier...

 - Michael