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		joeblau on March 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD... Security and detecting duplicates are two different things. You can detect duplicates using a Bloom filter and use a lot less memory than using MD5s.

Dylan16807 on March 22, 2014 [–]

A bloom filter is built on top of hash functions, not instead of them.

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