What's the goal of the hashing -- obfuscation? Shortening the data? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com > wrote:
> Is there a preferred hashing algorithm for such strings? The strings will > be > fixed length with trailing blanks. > > I was thinking of simply doing a MOD64 (or higher) of the sum of the > non-blank > part of the string by words, but as this is text with a limited character > set, > would this lead to excessive alias chains? Has research been done in this > area? There will mostly be search activity but also add activity. > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > > Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, > you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. > > I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, > especially those from irresponsible companies. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
