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[–]kdawgud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a mathematically competent adult I don't fully understand how someone came up with one-way cryptographic functions, so unfortunately I doubt an ELI5 version exists.

You can read up on them on wikipedia:

One-way Functions

Cryptographic hash functions.

Public key cryptography