hash collision
COMPUTER SCIENCE SITUATION WHERE TWO DATA ELEMENTS SHARE A HASHTAG, CHECKSUM, FINGERPRINT, ETC.
Hash collisions; Hash collision (computer science); Cryptographic hash collision
<
programming> (Or "
hash clash") When two different keys
hash
to the same value, i.e. to the same location in a {
hash
table}.
ESR once asked a friend what he expected Berkeley to be
like. The friend replied, "Well, I have this mental picture
of naked women throwing Molotov cocktails, but I think that's
just a
collision in my
hash tables."
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Jargon File]
(1995-01-23)