BSD license compatible hash algorithm?

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 05:12:52 PST 2007


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Ivan Voras wrote:
> 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) :)
>
Depends on the size of the table... I work with a algrothem that
regularly has tables between 2^32 and 2^64 buckets (even though the we
use a slightly different terminology)

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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
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