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> But I wouldn't say the hash you linked is nondeterministic just because it has a seed. You can seed MD5, SHA-2, and BLAKE2 by tossing bytes in as a prefix.

Yes, but the point is that hash functions used for hash tables are much, much faster than these cryptographic ones.



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