A bank wishes to record the account number of its clients (an 8-digit number) on magnetic stripe ATM cards in an encrypted format for the purpose of fraud prevention. Analyze on how secure the following methods of storing the account number are in the face of an adversary who is capable of reading the magnetic stripe:  Encrypt the account number and store it as a cryptographic hash

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