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One-way compression function

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 16, 2025
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In cryptography, a one-way compression function is a function that transforms two fixed-length inputs into a fixed-length output. The transformation is "one-way", meaning that it is difficult given a particular output to compute inputs which compress to that output. One-way compression functions are not related to conventional data compression algorithms, which instead can be inverted exactly or approximately to the original data.

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