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Blockchain cipher suitable for preschoolers

If all you want is a simple hash function you could do something like this. First take your original message and apply something like ROT 13 to it. This gives a reversible cipher, of course. Then ...
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Blockchain cipher suitable for preschoolers

A simple hash algorithm is modulo or remainder (they are the same for positive numbers). You only need be able to count. To calculate $n$ modulo $m$, take $m$ empty pots, and $n$ marbles. Place one ...
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Blockchain cipher suitable for preschoolers

Pick your first word from the sentence to hash. Look it up in a dictionary and write down the first word of the description. Pick the next word and look it up. Write down the second word from the ...
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