ipv6 connection hash function wanted ...

Max Laier max at love2party.net
Tue Nov 14 19:21:23 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 14 November 2006 20:09, David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:09:20PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> > Any ideas?  Any papers that deal with this problem?
>
> Assuming you don't want to use one of the standard cryptographic
> ones (which I can imagine being a bit slow for something done
> per-packet), then one option might be to use a simpler hash that
> is keyed. Choose the key at boot/module load time and make it hard
> to produce collisions unless you know the key.

That's exactly what I am looking for ... now I need someone[tm] - with 
better Math-Knowledge than mine - to write such a thing down in a simple 
formula :-) i.e. take those bits from there and there and XOR them with 
your canary yada-yada-yada ...

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