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The Accidental Ancestor – How Verifying Numbers Shaped Modern Hashing
1954, Hans Peter Luhn filed for a US patent on a Computer for Verifying Numbers. This is one of the earliest examples of using mathematical transformations to verify data integrity, a concept that became a foundation for modern hashes. Today you can find it under names Luhn Algorithm, Luhn Formula or Modulus 10 Algorithm.
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