I feel so stupid now you have no idea, shame on you, I now started reading about MurmurHash instead of working. And I write software for 12 years and have a CS degree.
The manual doesn't say you have to know any hashing algorithms. I think that should be the desired behavior - if your hashes work, you shouldn't need to know their internals as long as a reputable specailized verifier and some form of peer review can authenticate their worth. You have more important stuff to be doing!
... I also read up on Murmur though, since I know SHA and MD5 already. ~3 months out CS grad myself.
