phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] hash encryption

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:45:10 +0100
From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] hash encryption

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> One planned
> feature that stayed on my to-do list so far is builtin support for
> (re-)encryption of hashes.

what is the rationale to encrypt the hash?