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Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions.

This article examines the criteria used to evaluate non-cryptographic hash functions, which prioritize speed and efficiency over security. While these functions aim to uniformly distribute inputs across resources, challenges such as input patterns, modulo bias, and limitations in uniformity remain....

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 46 - 52
Main Authors: Hayes, Catherine, Malone, David
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2025
Subjects:
Computer network security
Cryptography
Hashing
Algorithms
Data structures
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