If I encrypt a string twice and compare them, will they be the same?I’m doing this in MySQL to compare my plain password to the one that’s encrypted and saved
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If I encrypt a string twice and compare them, will they be the same?I’m doing this in MySQL to compare my plain password to the one that’s encrypted and saved
Provided you are using the same standard encryption algorithm and the same encryption key for a particular input string you will always get the same encrypted output. It wouldn’t make much sense if you get different outputs because then decryption would be an almost impossible task.