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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
7. Universal Hashing
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Abstract
Generally, you cannot assume that your application can produce uniformly distributed keys; the hash functions in Chapter 6 are only heuristics. They make no guarantees about the results of hashing application keys and thus risk pathological cases where operations are linear rather than constant.