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Sorry for the noob question but how do you decrypt a SHA256 hash?


The hash is not for decryption. It is for checking the integrity of the downloaded file.


You don’t decrypt a hash, a hash is used to verify integrity of a specific content. You can use several programs to create a hash of the files you downloaded, and compare it to this person’s hash to see if they’re the same.




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