Universal hash functions for an infinite universe and hash trees

  • Authors:
  • Peter Brass

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, City College, 138 Street at Convent Avenue, New York, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this note we describe the adaptation of the universal hashing idea to an infinite universe, and to prefix hash trees. These are a structure underlying all extendible hash methods, which have up to now only been studied under the uniform hashing assumption.