From the paper Fast Hashing of Variable-Length Text Strings (archived) by Peter K. Pearson with additional edits by jeblad (Dec 13, 2025). The core of the Pearson hash algorithm is fast execution on ...

1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States The specificity of the immune response is critical ...

Hashing transforms data into a fixed-length cryptographic fingerprint that ensures integrity and authenticity. Every block in a blockchain contains its own hash and the previous block’s hash, forming ...

Chief information security officers (CISOs) have learned to live with uncertainty—supply chain threats, zero-day exploits, and shadow IT. But one of the most dangerous blind spots is also one of the ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Abstract: The integrity of evidence, a core principle of digital forensics, is essential for ensuring the reliability and admissibility of evidence in legal proceedings. Classical cryptographic hash ...

A lightweight cryptographic hash function inspired by ChaCha20, designed for speed, simplicity, and efficiency in resource-constrained environments. Ideal for embedded systems, research, and ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

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Quantum computing’s rapid progress poses a significant threat, potentially rendering current encryption methods and nearly all encrypted data vulnerable. This includes sensitive data that has already ...

Late last year, a major breach involving New Era Life Insurance Companies affected the protected health information (PHI) of more than 335,000 individuals. The root cause of the data breach was a ...