Here is my take on explaining password hashing for a non-technical audience: > Making a password hash gives you a scrambled text that nobody can turn back into

Here is my take on explaining password hashing for a non-technical audience: > Making a password hash gives you a scrambled text that nobody can turn back into your password but that anybody can use to check if a password guess is your real password. This uses the folk understanding of entropy to be more memorable in a non-misleading way. You can't un-scramble an egg hash.