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Can anyone suggest a simple (i.e. tens of lines of code, not hundreds of lines) hash function written in (browser-compatible) JavaScript? Ideally I'd like something that, when passed a string as input, produces something similar to the 32 character hexadecimal string that's the typical output of MD...

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