Hash codes in registry?

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I have an application which is creating key's and setting values in
the HKCU\software\microsoft\internetexplorer\hash codes. Not sure why
its putting them there, but I would like to see what they are/what
values they are storing.

Is hash like encryption? is there someway to translate it so that I
can tell what the value is?
 
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I have an application which is creating key's and setting values
in the HKCU\software\microsoft\internetexplorer\hash codes. Not
sure why its putting them there, but I would like to see what they
are/what values they are storing.

Is hash like encryption? is there someway to translate it so that
I can tell what the value is?
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I can't speak to this case specifically, but hash codes are generally
used for verification purposes (like a fingerprint). Putting a given
file through a hash function will always return the same hash code as
long as the file is unchanged. Hash codes are generally designed to
make it difficult if not impossible to modify a file without changing
the hash code.
A digital signature as usually nothing more than a hash code of the
data that has then been encrypted with a private key; and can be
verified by decoding with the public key then matching the resulting
hash code to the original data's hash code.

HTH,
John
 
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