> a hash is meant to handle secrets and cryptography - it's the wrong thing for this purpose The rest of your comment is good, but I wanted to quibble with thi

> a hash is meant to handle secrets and cryptography - it's the wrong thing for this purpose The rest of your comment is good, but I wanted to quibble with this: hashing is useful for a very wide range of things, and are one of the main building blocks of modern algorithms (hash tables being the best know).