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Fingerprint (computing)

In computer science, a fingerprinting algorithm is a procedure that maps an arbitrarily large data item (such as a computer file) to a much shorter bit string, its fingerprint, that uniquely identifies the original data for all practical purposes just as human fingerprints uniquely identify people for practical purposes. This fingerprint may be used for…

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Fingerprint (computing)

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples2
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
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MD5instance ofand have the advantage that they are believed to be safe against malicious attacks.A drawback of cryptographic hash algorithms0.80text
SHA is that they take considerably longer to execute than Rabin's fingerprint algorithminstance ofand have the advantage that they are believed to be safe against malicious attacks.A drawback of cryptographic hash algorithms0.80text

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