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Defines the lookup service using the Chord algorithm

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/*
 *  LookupService project defined all services an lookup algorithm
 *  Copyright (C) 2010  Daniel Pelaez, Daniel Lopez, Hector Hurtado
 *
 *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
 *  published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
 *  License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 *  along with this program.  If not, see .
 */

package co.edu.uniquindio.chord.hashing;

import java.math.BigInteger;

/**
 * The HashingGenerator class is used for generate the hashing of a
 * given value
 *
 * @author Daniel Pelaez
 * @author Hector Hurtado
 * @author Daniel Lopez
 * @version 1.0, 17/06/2010
 * @since 1.0
 */
public interface HashingGenerator {
    /**
     * This method generate the hashing number of the specified value, with the
     * specified bite length
     *
     * @param value
     * @param lengthBits . The bite length
     * @return Returns the hashing number of the value
     */
    BigInteger generateHashing(String value, int lengthBits);
}