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I'm not active in the field right now, so I can't give specifics (the comment was more borne out of frustration with people putting in so much effort 'reinventi
by tmeasday 14y ago
I'm not active in the field right now, so I can't give specifics (the comment was more borne out of frustration with people putting in so much effort 'reinventing the wheel' in an academic sense).
But if I was you, I'd start with Knuth (he, as another commenter mentioned, covers hashes in great detail), head to the references, and then use Google Scholar to find well-cited recent articles that reference the important papers mentioned there.
- pwaring 14y agoUnfortunately though, a lot of the papers that turn up in Google Scholar are behind paywalls. It is very expensive to get hold of academic papers if you don't work/study somewhere with an institutional licence (anything from $10 upwards per paper).
- tmeasday 14y agoYup, that's the world of academic publishing unfortunately. A tip: often you can get a 'preprint' copy of the paper from one of the authors' websites. Probably not strictly legal, but it does happen a lot.
- marcusf 14y agoThanks very much! Might be finally time to cough up the dough for TAOCP then and take it from there.
- tmeasday 14y agoMoney well spent, I'm sure!