Re:View Counting at Reddit
by twotwotwo on Saturday May 27, 2017 @11:37PM
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For outliers by random chance, lucasschm's reply explains.
The usual trick for preventing folks _maliciously_ sending in outliers is to use a hash with a secret key such as SipHash so that folks on the outside can't trivially figure out what inputs will lead to hashes with a lot of leading zeroes.
The usual trick for preventing folks _maliciously_ sending in outliers is to use a hash with a secret key such as SipHash so that folks on the outside can't trivially figure out what inputs will lead to hashes with a lot of leading zeroes.