<p>You can't, the fingerprint is the hash of the policy id and name concatenated. Cryptographic hashes can't be reversed.</p>

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2022-01-25T01:04:06.970Z
2022-01-25T01:04:06.970Z
Samuel Leathers
<p>Is it possible to retrieve the policyId from an 'asset fingerprint' without any api request to an external source?</p>

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What is the fastest way of getting PolicyId from an Asset Fingerprint?
# What is the fastest way of getting PolicyId from an Asset Fingerprint?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-25)

Is it possible to retrieve the policyId from an 'asset fingerprint' without any api request to an external source?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-01-25. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

You can't, the fingerprint is the hash of the policy id and name concatenated. Cryptographic hashes can't be reversed.


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