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Re:Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm by mschaef on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:50AM (#16275231)
> What Luhn invented was a checksum,

Agreed there is a distinction, but he invented hashing too.

Citations:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ibms-early-computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table

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