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Not if you're not looking for it to be hard to crack. Suppose you're generating quick checksums, using a hashtable, indexing non-malicious data, etc. In those cases you want a very fast hash function, and you're not worried about folks being able to find collisions for existing hashes, or create multiple values with the same hash.


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