Hashing is also deterministic, which can be useful for reproducibility. Cryptographic hashing is also a demonstration of "nothing up my sleeve". I've used this

Hashing is also deterministic, which can be useful for reproducibility. Cryptographic hashing is also a demonstration of "nothing up my sleeve". I've used this in benchmarks, where "random" choices in input selection are derived from cryptographic hashes of the inputs; so (a) anybody can reproduce a previous result, (b) every update will cause completely different selections to be made, and (c) it's difficult to force that selection into something that favours one or another system.