-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All hashs have issues with pooling.... see >> http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/index.html... > > Here's a more direct link: > http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html > > This one is much better according to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Choosing_a_good_hash_function > > Matter of fact this weakness is the main avenue of attack on cryptographic hashes see http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf A slightly off topic side note NIST is having a contest to attempt to mitigate these issues in "SHA-3" see: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html. Currently there only 4 teams that have expressed interest in entering perhaps this will get more interest.
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