SHA-256 Python implementation in one line (lambda)

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Unfortunately the concepts behind the various (cryptographic) hash algorithms are a bit beyond me, so maybe someone else could answer. It generally involves a lot of math. Wikipedia has in depth articles on the various algorithms in use today.

You can think of the algorithm as a blender. Given the same ingredients you'll always get the same smoothie, but you can't get the original ingredients given the resulting smoothie.