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== Cryptographically strong algorithms ==

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This term "cryptographically strong" is often used to describe an [[encryption]] [[algorithm]], and implies, in comparison to some other algorithm (which is thus cryptographically weak), greater resistance to attack. But it can also be used to describe hashing and unique identifier and filename creation algorithms. See for example the description of the Microsoft .NET runtime library function Path.GetRandomFileName.<ref>{{citation |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getrandomfilename.aspx |title=Path.GetRandomFileName Method (System.IO) |publisher=Microsoft}}</ref> In this usage, the term means "difficult to guess".