DJB on hashing identifying information[1]: > Hashing is magic crypto pixie-dust, which takes personally identifiable information and makes it incomprehensible

DJB on hashing identifying information[1]: > Hashing is magic crypto pixie-dust, which takes personally identifiable information and makes it incomprehensible to the marketing department. When a marketing person looks at random letters and numbers they have no idea what it means. They can't imagine that anybody could possibly understand the information, reverse the hash, correlate the hashes, track them, save them, record them. [1] https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html#bernstein https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...