One of the main pillars of cryptocurrencies the world over is that they are trustless systems. What does that mean? It means you don't have to rely on a third party, like a bank, or government, to ...

Hashing and Encryption, do you know what these are? Some might have heard the names before and believe they are the same. But that is not the case at all. You see, much of the data that is moving ...

I need a fast hashing function for the purpose of unique identification (not security). How many different, say, 100 character strings can I hash with md5 before hitting a collision? What about sha1?

package dustin.examples; import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder; /** * A simple representation of a Person intended only to demonstrate Apache * Commons ToStringBuilder. * * @author ...

The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...

I had an interesting realization tonight: I'm terrified of hash tables. Specifically, my work on JRuby (and even more directly, my work optimizing JRuby) has made me terrified to ever consider using a ...