On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:52:08PM -0800, chromatic wrote: > I'd rather remove the hash seed from the key calculation. Instead, let's use > a global seed (#defined somewhere) as the initial seed, cache the calculated
You don't want a constant global seed, else you fall foul of Algorithmic Complexity attacks: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/ > Any mathematician is welcome to prove that this makes things worse, however. Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach appear to be computer scientists. Will they do? :-) Nicholas Clark
