Unhashed

Part of speech: adjective, verb

Definitions

1. Characterized by a lack of processing to secure information, often referring to data that remains in a readable and original format
2. Describing information that has not been transformed into a protected or encoded state, thereby remaining easily accessible
3. Indicating content or data that has not undergone hashing, making it vulnerable to interpretation or retrieval

Etymology: "Unhashed" is formed by adding the prefix "un-", meaning "not", to "hashed," the past participle of "hash." In the computing sense, "hash" refers to a value produced by a hash function, which converts data into a fixed-length string of characters, often used for indexing or verifying data. "Unhashed" therefore describes data that has not been passed through such a function, or, in the context of this word's meaning, something not scrambled cryptographically. The word is a straightforward combination of existing parts rather than a single coinage with a memorable origin, so its interest lies mainly in how "hash" moved from cooking into computing. The "un-" prefix is a productive English element that has been used for centuries to reverse or negate the sense of a base word.

Synonyms: unprocessed, unresolved, unexplored, unexamined

Antonyms: hashed, processed, resolved