Fingerprint (computing)
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fingerprint-computing-175-6669892
title:
Fingerprint (computing)
text:
In computer science, a fingerprinting algorithm is a procedure that maps an arbitrarily large data item to a much shorter bit string, its fingerprint, that uniquely identifies the original data for all practical purposes just as human fingerprints uniquely identify people for practical purposes. This fingerprint may be used for data deduplication purposes. This is also referred to as file fingerprinting, data fingerprinting, or structured data fingerprinting. Fingerprints are typically used to a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Digital identifier derived from the data by an algorithm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint_(computing)
date created:
2008-02-24T06:05:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:01:52Z
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