hash algorithms...

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Between the phone and my email, I have been playing with hash
> algorithms today.

I'd like to point out the difference between a hash function and a
hash table...  I agree that we need a hash function, but if we use
md5, it's probably simpler and faster to keep the data in a red-black
tree with the hash value as lookup key than in a hash table where we
need to further hash the md5 digest and are guaranteed to get
collisions.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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Linpro AS - www.linpro.no