[wiredfool]

It's an internal hash for hash tables and the like. It's not for crypto.

It's main issue is that it turns large tables into an O(n/10) linked list. It was kinda painful for a few things 10 years ago, and it was a reasonable hack 10 years before that when it was likely originally written. Iirc, there was one pathological case where all the items ended up in one bucket, but that's lost to the sands of time.

Fwiw, md5 has been available in his system since 98 or so, and any security related stuff would have been using that.