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by superjan 1612 days ago
I agree that for standard hash tables this won’t work. However, I recently read about “Ideal Hash Trees” [0], that preserves the entire hash. That design also requires all bits to be “random” because it lacks the usual prime division.

[0] https://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf