I completely concur with your post, I have been scratching my head for some minutes now trying to figure out what the OP wants to do. > For one, in the one you

I completely concur with your post, I have been scratching my head for some minutes now trying to figure out what the OP wants to do. > For one, in the one you outlines, anagrams give the same hash value It's even worse: Only the number of occurences of a given character matter for the value of the hash. So "correct horsebatterystaple" gives the same as "aabcceeeehlooprrrrsstttty". Permutation of letters does not change the output at all, making a brute force attack extremely viable.