Pearson Hashing Function

pearson-hashing.js

'use strict'

// Ideally, this table would be shuffled...
// 256 will be the highest value provided by this hashing function
let table = [...new Array(256)].map((_, i) => i)

const hash8 = (message, table) => {
  return message.split('').reduce((hash, c) => {
    return table[(hash + c.charCodeAt(0)) % (table.length - 1)]
  }, message.length % (table.length - 1))
}