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		bcoates on Dec 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and f... For adversarial inputs, even a cryptographic hash won't save you, the cost of brute force searching for pathological keys is based the number of buckets not the cost of finding full collisions.

tptacek on Dec 13, 2024 [–]

There's a whole literature of cryptographic hashes designed for this problem.

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