what is called a "hush function"?

I searched over the internet, and all I was able to find was
some info about some kind of programming language for Linux,
based on Tcl/Tp (or something like that).

But I need to know what is called a "hush function",
it should be the same both in C and Pascal and any other language.

Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,
Yuri Margolin

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Before you buy.

You mean a "hash function"?

Without going into details, a hash function is a function that takes
some data and returns some information that tells you where within a
hash table this data should be stored.

This means that you can check if a particular data is in the hash table
without having to go through all entries, you just have to compute the
location using the hash function and "go there".

Most of the time, though, the data isn't what's passed through the hash
function but some key value (such as your phone number or social
security number). The real data (the passwords to your online accounts,
the name of your girlfriend etc.) is then stored according to that hash
key.

For more info, see a text book on data structures or search the web.

/A

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Before you buy.

Thank you Andreas!

This makes some sense.
You are right, this should be "hash" instead of "hush",
I was searching for "hush" because my teacher of "File Structure"
wrote "hush function" on the black-board.

Best regards,
Yuri Margolin
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Before you buy.

Yuri,

  Maybe your class was a little bit noisy at that time. ;)

        Best regards,
                Marco

Perhaps he wrote the letter a without properly connecting the arc of
the letter to the stem, as in

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instead of
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I asked him (my teacher) about it, and he told me that he was
thinking about something else when he wrote it.

and he did wrote "HUSH", no problem with connecting the arc :)

Best regards,
Yuri Margolin
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have heard of it in encryptation/cryptography context....Dont have enough
info to actually define it...any more inputs from anyone??? AFAIK its
something which verifies to see that the data is not corrupted..something
like a checksum I believe....Please add more info...anyone??

'krishna