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''Anonymization''. The conversion of data from something which is personally identifying and has meaning into another form which can not be reversed or traced back to the original source.

A [[one-way hash]], such as [[SHA256]] or other algorithms, can convert an email address, for example, into data which always produces the same result, but does not reveal the original email address.

e.g.

SHA256("alex@example.com") => "2533d1b2cab8476f9e0c7226e027a013942c2aa3990443113939a3081ea8e1a6"

The intent of using '''anonymization''' is to hide the source data, but make it easy to know if one source data matches another.

Often '''anonymization''' will use a private [[Cryptographic Salt]] to prevent non-anonymized data from being easily matched to anonymized data.

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