Hashing is a part of encryption, maybe you are the one who needs to shore up on the topic?

A good hash function is surjective. Encryption is bijective. They're very different things.

Nice try. However, hashing and encryption are two different operations.

Ctrl-F "hash". No mention of it.

Before being pedantic at least check out the url in that comment to get the basics going.

	▲	sowbug 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This entire thread should be annihilated, but since you mentioned being pedantic... You're correct that a pure encryption algorithm doesn't use hashing. But real-world encryption systems will include an HMAC to detect whether messages were altered in transit. HMACs do use hash functions.