In this next installment of my ongoing PowerShell series, I want to focus on putting PowerShell objects to work for you. Let me warn you in advance, however: Put on your advanced thinking caps for ...

Facebook Inc. is donating another of its internally developed tools to the open-source software community. The social media giant said it’s adding the F14 hash table, which it uses to manage vast ...

In the world of decentralization, distributed hash tables (DHTs) recently have had a revolutionary effect. The chaotic, ad hoc topologies of the first-generation peer-to-peer architectures have been ...

In Windows PowerShell, you most likely have used arrays and hash tables. The latter is simply a different kind of an array called an associative array. When using arrays, you may have a requirement to ...

People have been working on perfecting hashing since computing's early days. The result has been an almost endless number of hashing methods and tables. Facebook has faced this problem as well. Within ...

Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized parties ...

Researchers have shown how a flaw that is common to most popular Web programming languages can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks by exploiting hash tables. Announced publicly on Wednesday at ...

While the Hashtable was part of the initial Java release over two decades ago, the HashMap is the correct key-value store to use today. One key HashMap vs. Hashtable difference is the fact that the ...