Comment by coldtea
6 years ago
>My guess is it's one of those things that are simple to understand for the guy that wrote it but inscrutable for everyone else.
Or, one could just read the code instead of guessing - it's not that hard to follow, similar to Bloom idea + XORing the hashes.
> not that hard to follow
I'd say that the requirement to solve a system of linear equations that may or may not even have a solution in order to construct the filter might qualify as hard to follow.