[cap-talk] use of hashcodes?

[David Barbour]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
> is it in any way fair to characterize hash codes along a spectrum e.g.
> from CRC32 over to 'cryptographic' hashes (that is how i've always
> envisioned things), or do people tend to look at them as so
> quantitatively different as to end up being qualitatively different?

There's certainly a spectrum. One might quantify it by the amount of
work to produce a collision.