On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:07:16AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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 ....
Jenkins _does_ have them, I showed tests half a year ago and in this
thread too. Actually _any_ hash has them it is just a matter of time
to find one.
> Cheers,
> - Michael
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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