On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:11:43 +0100, Tobias Pankrath <tob...@pankrath.net>
wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 at 12:00:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:37:35AM +0100, Regan Heath wrote:
On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:41:12 +0100, Jonathan M Davis
<jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, August 07, 2012 15:31:57 Ary Manzana wrote:
>>I think "std.crypto" is a better name for the package. At >>first I
>>thought it contained an implementation of a Hash table.
>
>That doesn't fly, because crc32 is going to be in there, and >while
>it's a hash, it's no good for cryptography.
std.digest then?
[...]
+1. I think std.hash is needlessly confusing (I thought it was another
hashtable implementation until I read this thread more carefully).
T
-1
std.digest let's me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestion
That's exactly what it's supposed to suggest. The algorithm does digest
the input (AKA message) and output .. something else :p
digest is just not common if you mean hash in my cycles.
Like it or not, Digest is the correct term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
"The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm .."
I didn't think of an hash table implementation, maybe you are spoiled by
writing one at the moment? (no offence).
"Hash" has too many meanings, we should avoid it.
R
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