gehashte

Gehashte is the past participle form of the verb hashen (to hash) in Dutch and German, used as an adjective to describe data that has been processed by a hash function. In technicalWriting, phrases such as gehashte Passwörter or gehashte Werte indicate that the original values have been transformed into fixed-length hash values.

Linguistically, gehashte is a common descriptor in security and data-handling contexts. The term highlights that the represented data has undergone hashing, a standard practice in information security to reduce data to a consistent, opaque representation. The exact form of the word may vary by language and sentence structure, but the underlying concept remains the same: the original input is not readily recoverable from the hash alone.

Technically, hashing converts input data into a fixed-length string using a hash function. A good cryptographic hash function is deterministic, fast to compute, and designed to be preimage-resistant and collision-resistant. In security applications, hash outputs are often salted to defend against precomputed attacks. For password storage, gehashte passwords are typically produced with specialized algorithms such as bcrypt, scrypt, or Argon2, which adapt over time to increasing hardware capability. By contrast, older or weaker hashes (for example, MD5 or SHA-1) are discouraged for password storage due to vulnerability to collisions and brute-force attacks.

In practice, referring to data as gehashte serves to emphasize that the values have been transformed for privacy, integrity, or verification purposes, while the original content is not directly visible from the hash. See also hashing, cryptographic hash functions, salting, and password hashing.