On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 at 12:55:04 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
Like it or not, Digest is the correct term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
"The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm .."
You could have cited the hole sentence
The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic
hash function
So at least this implies that hash function is the more general
term here and the corresponding wiki article is named "hash
function" and does not even mention digest.
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.
At least hash table does not use a different meaning of the term
hash.
But I'm not that deep into it, I'd just say that digest is not
clearly better than hash.
