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Why do people call this encryption when in reality obfuscation is a much better word for it?
by nightcracker 11y ago
Why do people call this encryption when in reality obfuscation is a much better word for it?
- easytiger 11y agohashing?
- masklinn 11y agoIt's not a hash since it's reversible.
- matthewrudy 11y agoI'm also wary of calling it encryption. But I don't think "obfuscation" or "hashing" are correct either. The intent is the same as encryption - to keep the real location a secret, available only to people with the key. It feels different because the encrypted value is basically an offset, and it's continuous, so it feels almost the same as the unencrypted form.