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Why can't hashes be decrypted?
(For example, sha512, sha256, sha224, etc.)
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Because it's a checksum.
Approximately for the same reason why it is impossible to find out the value of a byte from the parity bit, but you can only check that all bits came without errors.
Because hashing is not encryption, but the convolution of an arbitrary value to a value from some limited range. Any hash corresponds to an infinite number of possible inputs.
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