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Simple hashing -- Maya --
Hello all, I'm using MD5 hashing in my application to give unique values to huge list of items my application receives, originally every item's name was difficult to use as an id for this item although its unique but because it had certain characters and variable lengths I ended up using MD5 hashing of the name. My question: is there a simpler way of doing hashing than MD5 which is 32bit but still guarantee uniqueness for almost 10 billion records? Thank you. Maya. |