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 * <h3>Desirable properties</h3>
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 * <p>A high-quality hash function strives for some subset of the following virtues:
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 * <ul>
 *   <li><b>collision-resistant:</b> while the definition above requires making at least <i>some</i>
 *       token attempt, one measure of the quality of a hash function is <i>how well</i> it succeeds