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It’s an open question whether hash functions can be used for encryption using XOR:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/35809/whats-wrong...

Here is a basic explanation:

https://cryptography.fandom.com/wiki/Snuffle

Note however that you would need a nonce / salt transmitted with each message because otherwise decrypting messages encrypted with the same key would just be as easy as XORing them!




Snuffle is symmetric key encryption, and yes, it's a well-known construction. However, you previously suggested that an asymmetric encryption scheme (with public and private keys) could be constructed using a hash.


oh, right. It’s only good for signing and random number generation, not encryption.

Still that’s plenty useful! It can be used for blockchains and crypto currency.




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