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During this time when the Internet provides essential communication between literally billions of people and is used as a tool for commerce, social interaction, and the exchange of an increasing amount of personal information, security has become a tremendously important issue for every user to deal with.

There are many aspects to security and many applications, ranging from secure commerce and payments to private communications and protecting health care information. One essential aspect for secure communications is that of cryptography. Encryption and hashing both serve different functions despite their similarities.

In your initial discussion post, please describe the following (Label your discussion with subheading):

1. Atleast two (2) hashing security mechanism and their relationships to the encryption mechanism.

2. Atleast one (1) similarity between encryption and hashing

3. Atleast any two (2) differences between encryption, hashing, and Salting

Respond substantively to at least (2) two other students’ posts.

*Please remember to use APA citation and include at least one credible scholarly reference with your initial post!