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Yeah, that seems to violate the goal of the avalanche effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
by joshdick 13y ago
Yeah, that seems to violate the goal of the avalanche effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
- dreish 13y agoThat's a design goal for cryptographic hash functions, which these are not.
- dllthomas 13y agoFor something like English words, where you will have a lot of common prefixes and suffixes, it seems a legitimate design goal as well (though it may not be a tradeoff worth making, to be sure).