> Well, I'd say a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof (no attackers, ever) and cares only about speed is a checksum -- so maybe a terminology issue.
Cityhash, spookyhash, and murmurhash are three modern non-cryptographic hash functions which explicitly don't call themselves "checksums".
Cityhash, spookyhash, and murmurhash are three modern non-cryptographic hash functions which explicitly don't call themselves "checksums".
Indeed, we say "hashtable", not "checksumtable".