Hi,

I'm curious why the hashing function that these filters use is based on SHA-1 (which is relatively slow to compute) instead of a bunch of fast and simple non-cryptographic functions such as Jenkins' hash (see http://bretm.home.comcast.net/hash/7.html for the evaluation of Jenkins hash).

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