diff --git a/DDCore/include/Parsers/Primitives.h b/DDCore/include/Parsers/Primitives.h
index 20afb2b27b169093466400cb6ad41c91efeb541a..77230c610321d315150bac8f8a575d04e72bd1ad 100644
--- a/DDCore/include/Parsers/Primitives.h
+++ b/DDCore/include/Parsers/Primitives.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <string_view>
 #endif
 #include <limits>
+#include <cstdint>
 
 #include <typeinfo>
 #include <algorithm>
@@ -105,15 +106,28 @@ namespace dd4hep {
   /// DD4hep internal namespace declaration for utilities and implementation details
   namespace detail  {
     
-    /// We need it so often: one-at-time 64 bit hash function
+    /// 64 bit hash function
+    unsigned long long int hash64(const void* key, std::size_t len);
+    /// 64 bit hash function
     unsigned long long int hash64(const char* key);
+    /// 64 bit hash function
     unsigned long long int hash64(const std::string& key);
-    template <typename T> unsigned long long int typeHash64()   {
-      static unsigned long long int code = hash64(typeid(T).name());
-      return code;
-    }
   
-    /// We need it so often: one-at-time 32 bit hash function
+    /// 32 bit hash function
+    inline unsigned int hash32(const void* key, std::size_t len) {
+      unsigned int hash = 0;
+      const unsigned char* k = (const unsigned char*)key;
+      for (; --len; k++) {
+        hash += *k;
+        hash += (hash << 10);
+        hash ^= (hash >> 6);
+      }
+      hash += (hash << 3);
+      hash ^= (hash >> 11);
+      hash += (hash << 15);
+      return hash;
+    }
+    /// 32 bit hash function
     inline unsigned int hash32(const char* key) {
       unsigned int hash = 0;
       const char* k = key;
@@ -123,14 +137,37 @@ namespace dd4hep {
         hash ^= (hash >> 6);
       }
       hash += (hash << 3);
-      hash ^= (hash >> 11); hash += (hash << 15);
+      hash ^= (hash >> 11);
+      hash += (hash << 15);
       return hash;
     }
-
+    /// 32 bit hash function
     inline unsigned int hash32(const std::string& key) {
       return hash32(key.c_str());
     }
 
+    /// 16 bit hash function
+    unsigned short hash16(const void* key, std::size_t len);
+    /// 16 bit hash function
+    inline unsigned short hash16(const std::string& key) {
+      return hash16(key.c_str(), key.length());
+    }
+
+    /// 8 bit hash function
+    unsigned char hash8(const char* key);
+    /// 8 bit hash function
+    unsigned char hash8(const void* key, std::size_t len);
+    /// 8 bit hash function
+    inline unsigned short hash8(const std::string& key) {
+      return hash8(key.c_str(), key.length());
+    }
+
+    /// 64 bit type hash function
+    template <typename T> unsigned long long int typeHash64()   {
+      static unsigned long long int code = hash64(typeid(T).name());
+      return code;
+    }
+
     template <typename T> T reverseBits(T num)     {
       static constexpr size_t NO_OF_BITS = sizeof(num) * 8 - 1; 
       static constexpr T _zero = 0;
diff --git a/DDCore/src/Primitives.cpp b/DDCore/src/Primitives.cpp
index 29773362dc91cd9932f8d6dfa2eb866444d6c5ba..e0e0f334b846bcfce2dc2f1309900cf598265fb4 100644
--- a/DDCore/src/Primitives.cpp
+++ b/DDCore/src/Primitives.cpp
@@ -142,6 +142,38 @@ namespace {
     static constexpr unsigned long long int doByte(unsigned long long int hash,unsigned char val)
     { return (hash ^ val) * 1099511628211ull; }
   };
+
+  static unsigned char crc8_table[] =
+    { 0, 94,188,226, 97, 63,221,131,194,156,126, 32,163,253, 31, 65,
+      157,195, 33,127,252,162, 64, 30, 95,  1,227,189, 62, 96,130,220,
+      35,125,159,193, 66, 28,254,160,225,191, 93,  3,128,222, 60, 98,
+      190,224,  2, 92,223,129, 99, 61,124, 34,192,158, 29, 67,161,255,
+      70, 24,250,164, 39,121,155,197,132,218, 56,102,229,187, 89,  7,
+      219,133,103, 57,186,228,  6, 88, 25, 71,165,251,120, 38,196,154,
+      101, 59,217,135,  4, 90,184,230,167,249, 27, 69,198,152,122, 36,
+      248,166, 68, 26,153,199, 37,123, 58,100,134,216, 91,  5,231,185,
+      140,210, 48,110,237,179, 81, 15, 78, 16,242,172, 47,113,147,205,
+      17, 79,173,243,112, 46,204,146,211,141,111, 49,178,236, 14, 80,
+      175,241, 19, 77,206,144,114, 44,109, 51,209,143, 12, 82,176,238,
+      50,108,142,208, 83, 13,239,177,240,174, 76, 18,145,207, 45,115,
+      202,148,118, 40,171,245, 23, 73,  8, 86,180,234,105, 55,213,139,
+      87,  9,235,181, 54,104,138,212,149,203, 41,119,244,170, 72, 22,
+      233,183, 85, 11,136,214, 52,106, 43,117,151,201, 74, 20,246,168,
+      116, 42,200,150, 21, 75,169,247,182,232, 10, 84,215,137,107, 53
+    };
+  /// Original Pearson algorithm
+  static unsigned char pearson_hash(const void *data, size_t len) {
+    const char *s = (const char*)data;
+    unsigned char c = 0;
+    while (--len) c = crc8_table[c ^ *s++];
+    return c;
+  }
+  static unsigned char pearson_hash(const char *data) {
+    const char *s = data;
+    unsigned char c = 0;
+    while (*s) c = crc8_table[c ^ *s++];
+    return c;
+  }
 }
 
 /// Convert volumeID to string format (016X)
@@ -151,20 +183,43 @@ std::string dd4hep::volumeID(VolumeID vid)   {
   return text;
 }
 
-/// We need it so often: one-at-time 64 bit hash function
+/// 64 bit hash function
 unsigned long long int dd4hep::detail::hash64(const char* key)   {
-  //return murmur_hash_64(key, strlen(key));
   unsigned char* str = (unsigned char*)key;
   unsigned long long int hash = FNV1a_64::hashinit;
   for ( ; *str; ++str) hash = FNV1a_64::doByte(hash, *str);
   return hash;
 }
 
+/// 64 bit hash function
+unsigned long long int dd4hep::detail::hash64(const void* key, std::size_t len)  {
+  const unsigned char* str = (const unsigned char*)key;
+  unsigned long long int hash = FNV1a_64::hashinit;
+  for ( ; --len; ++str) hash = FNV1a_64::doByte(hash, *str);
+  return hash;
+}
+
+/// 64 bit hash function
 unsigned long long int dd4hep::detail::hash64(const std::string& key)  {
-  //return murmur_hash_64(key.data(), key.length());
   return std::accumulate(begin(key),end(key),FNV1a_64::hashinit,FNV1a_64::doByte);
 }
 
+/// 16 bit hash function
+unsigned short dd4hep::detail::hash16(const void* key, std::size_t len)   {
+  unsigned int value = hash32(key, len);
+  return *(unsigned short*)&value;
+}
+
+/// 8 bit hash function
+unsigned char dd4hep::detail::hash8(const void* key, std::size_t len)   {
+  return pearson_hash(key, len);
+}
+
+/// 8 bit hash function
+unsigned char dd4hep::detail::hash8(const char* key)   {
+  return pearson_hash(key);
+}
+
 /// Replace all occurrencies of a string
 std::string dd4hep::detail::str_replace(const std::string& str,
 					const std::string& pattern,