On 2/20/07, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually someone (I think it was Evgeniy in fact) made such comparisons and found in his studies that not only does the current ehash xor hash function distribute about as well as jenkins, it's significantly cheaper to calculate :-)
However, it's vulnerable to hash collision attacks, which the Jenkins hash (used as a poor man's HMAC with a boot-time random salt) is not. But if you don't care about DoS .... Cheers, - Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
