I need to make a checksum from a JavaScript Object. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an easy way to accomplish this because of JavaScript's Object ordering. For example, take these Objects:...

I wonder how reliable the adler32 checksum is, compared to e.g. md5 checksums? It was told on wikipedia that adler32 is "much less reliable" than md5, so I wonder how much, and in which way? More ...

When using adler32() as a hash function, one should expect rare collisions. We can do the exact math of collisions probability, but roughly speaking, since it is a 32-bits hash function, there sh...

The Adler-32 checksum algorithm does sums modulo 65521. I know that 65521 is the largest prime number that fits in 16 bits, but why is it important to use a prime number in this algorithm? (I'm su...