What's a good method/function to create a reversible hash?

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Published on 2010-04-08T01:44:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 1:53 UTC
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I need to transmit some data over the wire and I don't want that data being plain text.

The text I'm sending needs to be reversed so I can't md5/sha256/etc...

What's a good way to encode a salted string?

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