Why can’t sha256 be reversed easily?

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Can’t the steps be reversed one by one to get back the original?

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No, because some steps do not have 1 result when you revert them.

Think of “squared”.

2^2 and (-2)^2 both give the same squared value = 4

But you can’t reverse the operation to see which of the two it came from.

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