crc32 to be used as hash

[Mike Meyer]

wgshi at namao.cs.ualberta.ca (Weiguang Shi) writes:

> It's good to know. According to Jain's paper, CRC32 _is_ relatively
> bit-wise random (again, for the network workload). That's the property
> I'm after.

Since no one else has mentioned it - have you considered using md5,
which is also built into Python?

      <mike
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