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Re:Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters by layoutIfNeeded on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:48AM (#21842366)
Insecure? What does that mean in the context of a read-only data structure?
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Re:Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters by fixf on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:34AM (#21842542)
Good point, loose language on my part. I am thinking of false positives or collision. The required statistical properties aren't met.
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