Talk:Algorithm Implementation/Hashing

merge
I suggest merging Algorithm Implementation/Checksums into Algorithm Implementation/Hashing. Each checksum function is a kind of hash function. Perhaps sometime in the future we will have enough content to split "checksums" back out into a separate chapter -- or perhaps we will decide on a better way to divide it up. --DavidCary (talk) 23:40, 26 October 2009 (UTC)


 * In general, checksum implementations have very different properties from cryptographic hash implementations, since the former are optimised for speed and the latter for cryptographic properties. But I agree that in practice the contents of this page has a lot of overlap with checksums, and also that lookup hashes have a lot more in common with checksums. Personally I'd support having a page for fast hashing and a page for cryptographic hashing. --Fishpi (talk) 14:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)