The Digest::JHash module allows you to use the fast JHash hashing algorithm developed by Bob Jenkins from within Perl programs. The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 32-bit "message digest" of the input in the form of an unsigned long integer. See http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html for more information. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-JHash/