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Document number: N3898

Date: 2014-01-20

Hashing and Fingerprinting

by Geoff Pike

Excerpt:

Given that multiple hash functions may traverse objects of some class, let's separate the code responsible for "traversing" the right parts of objects from the code that computes hashes.