BSD license compatible hash algorithm?

[Ivan Voras]

On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

All of this is true but it's not very useful for hash tables
(crypto-strength hash functions are generally too slow for the
purpose) :)