I read with interest Peter Pearson's article, “Fast Hashing of Variable-Length Text Strings” (June 1990, pp. 677-680). In it he defines a hash function, given a text C1 … CN, by Exclusive OR'ing the bytes and modifying each intermediate result through a table of 256 randomish bytes.
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