Why a flip a bin befor a hash ? (in this script)











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function binFlipByteOrder($string) {
return implode('', array_reverse(str_split($string, 1)));
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      function binFlipByteOrder($string) {
      return implode('', array_reverse(str_split($string, 1)));
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