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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals SC-900 Practice Question

An administrator is comparing encryption and hashing when deciding how to protect data in Microsoft 365. Which statement correctly describes how hashing differs from encryption?

  • Hashing requires a public/private key pair, whereas encryption never uses keys.

  • Hashing significantly increases the size of the data, but encryption keeps data length unchanged.

  • Hashing protects confidentiality but not integrity, whereas encryption protects integrity but not confidentiality.

  • Hashing creates a fixed-length value that cannot be reversed, while encrypted data can be returned to its original form with the appropriate key.

Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals SC-900
Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity
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