I had an interesting realization tonight: I'm terrified of hash tables. Specifically, my work on JRuby (and even more directly, my work optimizing JRuby) has made me terrified to ever consider using a ...

I've not really used maps/hashes inside of any previous c/c++ code, but now I have need to within a project here at the office.<BR><BR>I've got to tie an ACL to control id's in an MFC application, and ...

In the password security arms race, the bad guys are winning. Once-sturdy cryptographic “hashing” algorithms — pillars of online data security — are proving vulnerable to brute force attacks that use ...