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Naming Things with Hashes (2013)

2 pointsby rdpintqogeogsaaover 3 years ago

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rdpintqogeogsaaover 3 years ago
I&#x27;ll take this opportunity and also point out a pet peeve of mine with this spec in section 7:<p>The Luhn algorithm used as a check digit is suboptimal; better options with greater detection rates of various kinds of human input errors exist, see e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uni-due.de&#x2F;imperia&#x2F;md&#x2F;content&#x2F;dc&#x2F;yanling_2015_check_digit.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uni-due.de&#x2F;imperia&#x2F;md&#x2F;content&#x2F;dc&#x2F;yanling_2015_ch...</a>, p. 12 also showing some other options. See also <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;page.mi.fu-berlin.de&#x2F;rhschulz&#x2F;Literatur&#x2F;checkdigits_literatur.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;page.mi.fu-berlin.de&#x2F;rhschulz&#x2F;Literatur&#x2F;checkdigits_l...</a> for further reading on check digits.