Hash tables have no correlation to cryptography, and the "hash" function in most languages are more closely related to checksums---in fact, the `hash` function

Hash tables have no correlation to cryptography, and the "hash" function in most languages are more closely related to checksums---in fact, the `hash` function in python for ints is the identity. I would never assume that a hash is intended to be secure in any sense, just a function that produces an integer from an arbitrary data source.