Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF

2016-12-21 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The networking tree (net-next) which is where you are submitting to is > technically > closed right now. That's okay. At some point in the future it will be open. By then v83 of this patch set will be shiny and done, just waiting for th

Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF

2016-12-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:02:11 +0100 "Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: > SipHash is a 64-bit keyed hash function that is actually a > cryptographically secure PRF, like HMAC. Except SipHash is super fast, > and is meant to be used as a hashtable keyed lookup function, or as a > general PRF for short inpu

[PATCH v7 1/6] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF

2016-12-21 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
SipHash is a 64-bit keyed hash function that is actually a cryptographically secure PRF, like HMAC. Except SipHash is super fast, and is meant to be used as a hashtable keyed lookup function, or as a general PRF for short input use cases, such as sequence numbers or RNG chaining. For the first usa