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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <sNHTj-1Zf-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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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