He did muddle around the definition of one way functions, but the information provided is useful. http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/8.html http://home.comcas

He did muddle around the definition of one way functions, but the information provided is useful. http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/8.html http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/8.html This seems to indicate that CRC is not a good fit for hashing. I have used http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/ http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/ before and it has worked very well for all the use cases I have thrown at it.