Answering msg from David Nugent to steven pasztor,
on Friday August 11 1995 at 11:22

 >> Also, you could use the program's CRC to decode the
 >> registration key, extracting a "control" section which

 DN> What's this hangup with CRCs? They's nothing particular holy about
 DN> them, and there are far better (and cheaper) hashing algorithms in
 DN> existance, certainly there are far better encryption algorithms.

Hi David. Can you suggest a some better hashing algorithms? I have also
been using CRCs but in one of my programs it takes up 1024 bytes for the
table alone. This may not seem significant, but it is when you consider
that the entire executable is 2,223 bytes in size. :-) Since it's a linker,
speed is also important, and I'm sure there are much faster algorithms than
CRC.

Do you have any source? What about the hashing algorithm described in
Squish's API, would you consider that a "good" hashing algorithm?

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