Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is a family of hashing methods that tent to produce the same hash (or signature) for similar items. There exist different LSH functions, that each correspond to a ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

Cryptographic hash functions secure data by providing a unique fixed-length output for each input. These functions are essential in blockchain for data integrity and secure transactions. Understanding ...

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When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one question would come up again and again as victim organizations, cybersecurity ...

The class `java.net.URL` implements `Serializable`, this means that this class can be serialized. public final class URL implements java.io.Serializable { This class have a **curious behaviour.** From ...

In this blog post, I have looked at a common method that I only use rarely, but which is worth noting for its occasional use. The System.identityHashCode(Object) method is an easy way to obtain the ...