*   <li><b>pure function:</b> the value produced must depend only on the input bytes, in the order
 *       they appear. Input data is never modified. {@link HashFunction} instances should always be
 *       stateless, and therefore thread-safe.
 *   <li><b>collision-averse:</b> while it can't be helped that a hash function will sometimes
 *       produce the same hash code for distinct inputs (a "collision"), every hash function strives