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Where Would You Find a Cuckoo In Cybersecurity?

In cybersecurity, we often hear of a canary, and which is a file that is used to probe for a response. But where would we find a cuckoo?

Well, cuckoo hashing involves a method that avoids having collisions in a hash table. Overall we in our table we have a hashkey-value pair, and where we take a look up term and hash it to provide a lookup hash. This hash then has an associated…