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		SoftwareMaven on May 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and... Lossless compression doesn't compress random data. You will still have the same number of bits in and out.

gizzlon on May 30, 2012 [–]

Who says the input is necessarily random? ;)

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