Possibly changing the path encoding format

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Noel Grandin <noel at peralex.com> wrote:

> Since this isn't a crypto application, you're probably better off with a
> cheaper hash function like murmur hash, for which there is both C and
> Python code:
>

It's not a crypto application, but collisions would be catastrophic.
Functions that produce smaller hashes are obviously much more vulnerable,
and murmur in particular is problematic due to having poor collision
properties on some easily produced families of inputs.
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