cryptography - Encryption vs. digest

Question

What is the difference between encryption and a digest?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3332662/encryption-vs-digest

Answer 1

Encryption takes a plain text and converts it to an encrypted text using a key and an encryption algorithm. The resulting encrypted text can later be decrypted (by using the same key and algorithm).

A digest takes a plain text and generates a hashcode which can be used to verify if the plain text is unmodified but cannot be used to decrypt the original text from the hash value.