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Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function

From "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function
Date 2016-12-13 00:10 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> It would be nice if the network code could be converted to use siphash
> for the secure sequence numbers. Right now it pulls in a lot of code
> for bigger secure hashes just for that, which is a problem for tiny
> kernels.

Indeed this would be a great first candidate. There are lots of places
where MD5 (!!) is pulled in for this sort of thing, when SipHash could
be a faster and leaner replacement (and arguably more secure than
rusty MD5).

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Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-12-13 00:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-12-13 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2016-12-14 00:40 +0100

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